Romans 3:4
Good News Translation
Certainly not! God must be true, even though all human beings are liars. As the scripture says, "You must be shown to be right when you speak; you must win your case when you are being tried."

New Revised Standard Version
By no means! Although everyone is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written, “So that you may be justified in your words, and prevail in your judging.”

Contemporary English Version
No, indeed! God tells the truth, even if everyone else is a liar. The Scriptures say about God, "Your words will be proven true, and in court you will win your case."

New American Bible
Of course not! God must be true, though every human being is a liar, as it is written: “That you may be justified in your words, and conquer when you are judged.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

God forbid.

Romans 3:6,31 (I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world? . . .

Romans 6:2,15 God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein? . . .

Romans 7:7,13 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!

Romans 11:1,11 I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. . . .

Luke 20:16 He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

1 Corinthians 6:15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

Galatians 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid!

Galatians 2:21 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

let God.

Deuteronomy 32:4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Psalm 100:5 For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

Psalm 119:160 The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.

Psalm 138:2 I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.

Micah 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

John 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

2 Corinthians 1:18 But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

Titus 1:2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

1 John 5:10,20 He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son. . . .

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

but every.

Psalm 62:9 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Psalm 116:11 I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

That thou.

Job 36:3 I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

Psalm 51:4 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

Context
God Remains Faithful
3For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid! 4But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. 5But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?…
Cross References
Job 40:8
Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Psalm 51:4
To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

Psalm 116:11
I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

Luke 20:16
He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

Romans 3:6
(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

Romans 3:7
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

Romans 3:31
Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

1 Timothy 3:16
And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Romans 3:3
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