Romans 3:3

World English Bible (2000)

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

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  • 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
  • Rom 10:16 : 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
  • Rom 11:1-7 : 1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: 3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life." 4 But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
  • 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
  • Isa 55:11 : 11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • John 1:16 : 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
  • Isa 65:15-16 : 15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name: 16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.
  • Jer 33:24-26 : 24 Don't consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
  • Isa 54:9-9 : 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. 10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
  • Rom 11:29 : 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
  • Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." 15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 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 take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Titus 1:1-2 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

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    4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

    5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

    6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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

    8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • 13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."

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    30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

    31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.

    32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

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    18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

    19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

  • 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

  • 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

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    29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

    30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

    31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

  • 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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    20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

    21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

  • 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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    20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;

    21 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

  • 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

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    4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

    5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

    6 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

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    16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

    17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

  • 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

  • 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

  • 6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

  • 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

  • 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • 3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

  • 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.

  • 23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

  • 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

  • 26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

  • 27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

  • 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

  • 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

  • 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

  • 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

  • 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

  • 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

  • 3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

  • 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

  • 39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

  • 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.