Romans 3:6

let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

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

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Cross References

Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

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

Psalms 50:6And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. Selah.

Psalms 98:9Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!

Romans 2:16in the day when God shall 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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