Romans 3:5

Jews Still Have An Advantage

⁴ Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge. ⁵ But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath? ⁶ Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

City of God

God Forbid

Righteousness of God

By No Means

Does What Is Right

Hen

No

Romans 6:19

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.

1 Corinthians 9:8

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

Romans 2:5

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

Romans 4:1

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?

Romans 7:7

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

Deuteronomy 32:39-43

See now that I alone am He;
there is no God but Me.
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from My hand.

Psalm 58:10-11

The righteous one will rejoice
when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalm 94:1-2

Lord, God of vengeance—
God of vengeance, appear.

Nahum 1:2

The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord takes vengeance
and is fierce in wrath.
The Lord takes vengeance against His foes;
He is furious with His enemies.

Nahum 1:6-8

Who can withstand His indignation?
Who can endure His burning anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
even rocks are shattered before Him.

Romans 3:7

But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

Romans 3:25-26

God presented Him as a propitiation through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

Romans 6:1

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?

Romans 8:20-21

For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it—in the hope

Romans 9:13-14

As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.

Romans 9:18-20

So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.

Romans 12:19

Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay, says the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-9

since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

Revelation 15:3

They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:

Great and awe-inspiring are Your works,
Lord God, the Almighty;
righteous and true are Your ways,
King of the Nations.

Revelation 16:5-7

I heard the angel of the waters say:

You are righteous,
who is and who was, the Holy One,
for You have decided these things.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, heaven,
and you saints, apostles, and prophets,
because God has executed your judgment on her!