Romans 3:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
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“However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?”
King James Version · Public Domain“But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 3:7 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 37:8“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.
- Genesis 37:20“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
- Genesis 44:1Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.
- Genesis 50:18His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”
- Exodus 3:19But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
- Exodus 14:5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
- Exodus 14:30That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
- 1 Kings 13:17For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
- 1 Kings 13:26When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
- 2 Kings 8:10Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”
- Isaiah 10:6I 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.
- Matthew 26:34“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
- Matthew 26:69Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.
- Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
- Acts 13:27The 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.
- Romans 3:4Certainly 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.”
- Romans 9:19One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
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