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Romans 3:4

For God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: “Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3But what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief nullify the faith of God? Let it not be so!

5But if even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?

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Cross References

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

Psalms 51:4All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

Psalms 100:5The one who secretly detracted his neighbor, this one I pursued. The one with an arrogant eye and an insatiable heart, with that one I would not eat.

Micah 7:20You will give the truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which you swore to our fathers from the ancient days.

Luke 20:16“He will come and destroy those settlers, and he will give the vineyard to others.” And upon hearing this, they said to him, “Let it not be.”

Matthew Henry on Romans 3:2-19

The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 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… Read the whole commentary →

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