Romans 3:6

Of course not! How else could God judge the world?

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5But if the fact that we're wrong helps to show that God is right, what should we conclude? That God is wrong to pronounce judgment on us? (I'm talking from a human perspective here.)

7Someone could say, “Why am I still condemned as a sinner if my lies make the truth of God and his glory more obvious in contrast?”

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Cross References

Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Psalms 9:8The Lord judges the world rightly; he judges the nations fairly.

Psalms 50:6The heavens declare his decisions are right, for God himself is the judge. Selah.

Psalms 98:9before the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world justly, and the nations fairly.

Romans 2:16The good news I share is that a day is coming when God will judge, through Jesus Christ, everyone's secret thoughts.

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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