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Romans 3:7

Truth and honestyIntegrity

5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

6 Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

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BSB
However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
KJV
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
WEB
For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
ASV
But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
DARBY
For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?
BLB
But if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
ÅB
Ja, men dersom Guds sannferdighet åpenbarte seg ved min løgn, rikelig til hans ære, hvorfor blir da jeg enda dømt som en synder?
OTB
Men hvis gjennom min løgnaktighet Guds sannferdighet øker til hans ære, hvorfor blir jeg da fortsatt dømt som en synder?
B1930
Ja, men dersom Guds sanndruhet ved min løgn åpenbarte sig rikelig til hans ære, hvorfor blir da jeg enda dømt som en synder?

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Cross references

  • Romans 3:4

    Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

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  • Romans 9:19–20

    One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

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  • Acts 13:27–29

    The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

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  • 2 Kings 8:10–15

    Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”

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  • Isaiah 10:6–7

    I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

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  • Matthew 26:34

    “Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”

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  • Matthew 26:69–75

    Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.

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