Verse 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 judged.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest 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 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 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.