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Romans 3:7

Someone 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?”

Free Bible Version

In The 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?

In Context

6Of course not! How else could God judge the world?

8Is it a case of, “Let's sin to bring about good”? That's what some people have slanderously accused us of saying. They should be rightly condemned!

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Cross References

Genesis 37:20“Come on, let's kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We'll say that some wild animal has eaten him. Then we'll see what happens to his dreams!”

Genesis 50:18Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”

Exodus 14:5When the king of Egypt found out that the Israelites had left in a hurry, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about what had happened and said, “What have we done? We have let all these Israelite slaves go!”

1 Kings 13:17“The Lord ordered me, saying ‘You must not eat or drink anything there, or return by the way you came.’”

2 Kings 8:10“Go and tell him, ‘You will definitely recover.’ But the Lord has shown me that definitely he is going to die,” Elisha replied.

Matthew 26:34“I'm telling you the truth,” Jesus told him, “This very night, before the cock crows, you'll deny me three times.”

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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