Romans 3:6

Let it not be! Since how will God judge the world?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5And if our unrighteousness establishes God’s righteousness, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man.)

7For if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded more to His glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

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Cross References

Job 8:3Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?

Psalms 9:8And He judges the world in righteousness, || He judges the peoples in uprightness.

Psalms 50:6And the heavens declare His righteousness, || For God Himself is judging. Selah.

Psalms 98:9Before YHWH, || For He has come to judge the earth, || He judges the world in righteousness, || And the people in uprightness!

Romans 2:16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

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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