Romans 3:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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 judged.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ γένοιτο: γινέσθω δὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἀληθής, πᾶς δὲ ἄνθρωπος ψεύστης· καθὼς γέγραπται, Ὅπως ἂν δικαιωθῇς ἐν τοῖς λόγοις σου, καὶ νικήσῃς ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε.

Transliteration

Mē genoito: ginesthō de ho Theos alēthēs, pas de anthrōpos pseustēs; kathōs gegraptai, Hopōs an dikaiōthēs en tois logois sou, kai nikēsēs en tō krinesthai se.

Grammar Details

• *Mē genoito*: optative phrase, aorist middle, 3rd person singular - may it not be/certainly not
• *ginesthō*: verb, imperative, present middle/passive, 3rd person singular - let be
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *ho Theos*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *alēthēs*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - true/truthful
• *pas*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - every/all
• *anthrōpos*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - man/human
• *pseustēs*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - liar
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/according as
• *gegraptai*: verb, perfect passive, 3rd person singular - it has been written
• *Hopōs*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *an*: particle with subjunctive - would/might
• *dikaiōthēs*: verb, aorist passive subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might be justified
• *en tois logois*: preposition + dative noun, masculine, plural - in the words
• *sou*: pronoun, genitive, singular - of you/your
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *nikēsēs*: verb, aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might conquer/prevail
• *en tō krinesthai*: preposition + articular infinitive, present middle/passive - in the being judged
• *se*: pronoun, accusative, singular - you

Word Meanings

• *Mē genoito*: may it not be/by no means/certainly not/God forbid
• *alēthēs*: true/truthful/honest
• *pseustēs*: liar/deceiver/false
• *dikaiōthēs*: be justified/be vindicated/be proven right
• *nikēsēs*: conquer/prevail/overcome/be victorious
• *krinesthai*: being judged/entering into judgment/going to court

Referenced Verses

• Ps 51:4 : 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned{H8804)}, and done{H8804)} this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified{H8799)} when thou speakest{H8800)}, and be clear{H8799)} when thou judgest{H8800)}.
• Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
• Gal 2:17 : 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
• Luke 20:16 : 16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to 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 may 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 void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Rom 6:2 : 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
• Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Rom 7:13 : 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment 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, Hath God cast away 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, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
• Ps 119:160 : 160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
• Ps 138:2 : 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise 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 mercy 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 man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
• Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid{H8800)} in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
• Ps 100:5 : 5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
• Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth 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 also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
• 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 no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
• John 3:33 : 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
• Rom 3:6-7 : 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
• Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
• Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
• 1 John 5:10 : 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
• 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
• 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.