Verse 6
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Referenced Verses
- Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Job 8:3 : 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 34:17-19 : 17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? 18 [Is it fit] to say to a king, [Thou art] wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are] ungodly? 19 [How much less to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all [are] the work of his hands.
- Ps 9:8 : 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
- Ps 11:5-7 : 5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
- Ps 50:6 : 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah.
- Ps 96:13 : 13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
- Ps 98:9 : 9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
- Acts 17:31 : 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Rom 2:16 : 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.