Romans 3:4

American Standard Version (1901)

God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

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  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  • Gal 2:17 : 17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.
  • Luke 20:16 : 16 He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
  • Rom 9:14 : 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • Rom 11:11 : 11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
  • Ps 119:160 : 160 The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances [endureth] for ever.
  • Ps 138:2 : 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
  • Mic 7:20 : 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
  • Matt 11:19 : 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her [ works.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 100:5 : 5 For Jehovah is good; His lovingkindness [endureth] for ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations.
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
  • Job 36:3 : 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
  • John 3:33 : 33 He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to [this], that God is true.
  • Rom 3:6-7 : 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

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    7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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    9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

    10as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

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    1Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

    2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.

    3And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

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    5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

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    8Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

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    26for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

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    2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

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    37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

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    33He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to [this], that God is true.

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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

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    11I said in my haste, All men are liars.

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    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

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    2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

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    6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

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    4For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

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