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Romans 3:7

Truth and honestyIntegrity

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they 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

    God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

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  • Romans 9:19–20

    Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

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  • Acts 13:27–29

    For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

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  • 2 Kings 8:10–15

    And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

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  • Isaiah 10:6–7

    I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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  • Matthew 26:34

    Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

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  • Matthew 26:69–75

    Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.

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