Romans 3:7 “However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increa…”

Romans 3:7

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

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

American Standard Version

But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Geneva Bible 1599

For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

Darby Translation

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Young's Literal Translation

for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

Bible in Basic English

But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

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Cross references

“if the truth”

2 Kings 8:10–15 Matthew 26:34 Matthew 26:69–75 Genesis 37:20 Genesis 44:1–14 Genesis 50:18–20

2 Kings 8:10–15 · BSB

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

Matthew 26:34 · BSB

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

Matthew 26:69–75 · BSB

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.

Genesis 37:20 · BSB

“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 44:1–14 · BSB

Then 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 50:18–20 · BSB

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

“why yet”

Acts 13:27–29 Acts 2:23 Romans 9:19 Romans 9:20 Isaiah 10:6 Isaiah 10:7

Acts 13:27–29 · BSB

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.

Acts 2:23 · BSB

He 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.

Romans 9:19 · BSB

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

Romans 9:20 · BSB

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 10:7 · BSB

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

Also

Romans 3:4

Romans 3:4 · BSB

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.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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