Romans 3:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.””
Read Romans 3:4 in the flow of Romans3 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Romans3 to see the surrounding context.
“Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 3:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Job 36:3I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Psalms 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalms 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
- Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- Psalms 119:160The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
- Psalms 138:2I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
- Micah 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
- Matthew 11:19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”
- Luke 20:16He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”
- John 3:33Whoever accepts His testimony has certified that God is truthful.
- Romans 3:6Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
- Romans 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
- Romans 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
- Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!
- Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
- Romans 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
- Romans 9:14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
- Romans 11:1I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Romans 11:11I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
- 2 Corinthians 1:18But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
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