Verse 4

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written:“so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I rashly declared,“All men are liars.”
  • Gal 2:17 : 17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!
  • Luke 20:16 : 16 He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said,“May this never happen!”
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
  • Rom 9:14 : 14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
  • Rom 11:11 : 11 I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.
  • Ps 119:160 : 160 Your instructions are totally reliable; all your just regulations endure.
  • Ps 138:2 : 2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have exalted your promise above the entire sky.
  • Mic 7:20 : 20 You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, which you promised on oath to our ancestors in ancient times.
  • Matt 11:19 : 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say,‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
  • Ps 100:5 : 5 For the LORD is good. His loyal love endures, and he is faithful through all generations.
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.
  • Job 36:3 : 3 With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 To the Church in Philadelphia“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open:
  • John 3:33 : 33 The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful.
  • Rom 3:6-7 : 6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world? 7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before time began.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is faithful, our message to you is not“Yes” and“No.”
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!