Romans 9:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

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  • 2 Chr 19:7 : 7 So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
  • Ps 92:15 : 15 For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.
  • Job 34:10-12 : 10 Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong. 11 For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways. 12 Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?
  • Rev 16:7 : 7 And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.
  • Job 34:18-19 : 18 He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners; 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
  • Job 35:2 : 2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
  • Rom 3:1 : 1 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)? 6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
  • Rev 15:3-4 : 3 And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King. 4 What man is there who will not have fear before you, O Lord, and give glory to your name? because you only are holy; for all the nations will come and give worship before you; for your righteousness has been made clear.

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  • Rom 3:3-10
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    3 And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

    4 In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

    5 But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?

    6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

    7 But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

    8 Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

    9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

    10 As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

  • Rom 9:15-20
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    15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

    16 So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

    17 For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

    18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

    19 But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

    20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

  • 15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

  • Rom 9:11-13
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    11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

    12 It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger.

    13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

    2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Rom 8:31-33
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    31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

    32 He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

    33 Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;

  • 11 For one man is not different from another before God.

  • 17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

  • 1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • 30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

  • 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

  • 6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

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    28 As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

    29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

  • 21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Rom 4:8-9
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    8 Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

    9 Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

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    1 What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

    2 For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

  • 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • 13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

  • 32 For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

  • 11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

  • Rom 2:2-4
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    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

    3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

    4 Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

  • 18 For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

  • 6 As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

  • 17 If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

  • 9 And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.

  • 7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

  • 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?