Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?
New American Standard Bible
But if through my lie
King James Version
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Holman Bible
But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
International Standard Version
For if through my falsehood God's truthfulness glorifies him even more, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
A Conservative Version
For if by my lie, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as sinful,
American Standard Version
But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Amplified
But [as you might say] if through my lie God’s truth was magnified and abounded to His glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?
An Understandable Version
But if my "lie" [i.e., as you Jews call it] would result in God's truthfulness [about you Jews] increasing the honor He receives, why am I also still judged to be a sinner [by you]?
Anderson New Testament
Yet, if the truth of God has, through my lie, been greatly advanced to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?
Bible in Basic English
But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
Common New Testament
But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
Daniel Mace New Testament
"but, say you, if the veracity of God hath appeared more illustrious thro' my unfaithfulness, why then am I condemned as a sinner?
Darby Translation
For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Godbey New Testament
And if the truth of God through my falsehood abounded unto His glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?
Goodspeed New Testament
But, you say, if a falsehood of mine has brought great honor to God by bringing out his truthfulness, why am I tried for being a sinner?
John Wesley New Testament
But if the truth of God hath abounded to his glory through my lie, why am I still judged as a sinner?
Julia Smith Translation
For if the truth of God in my lying abounded to his glory; why yet am I judged as sinful?
King James 2000
For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Modern King James verseion
For if in my lie the truth has more abounded to His glory why am I still judged as a sinner?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If the verity of God appear more excellent through my lie, unto his praise, why am I henceforth judged as a sinner?
Moffatt New Testament
You say, "If my perfidy serves to make the truthfulness of God redound to his glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
Montgomery New Testament
But if by a falsehood of mine the truthfulness of God has been made to redound to his glory, why am I still tried as a sinner?
NET Bible
For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?
New Heart English Bible
For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Noyes New Testament
For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?
Sawyer New Testament
For if the truth of God abounded by my falsehood to his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
The Emphasized Bible
But, if, the truth of God, by my falsehood, hath the more abounded unto his glory, why, any longer, am, even I, as a sinner, to be judged?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if the truth of God by my lying hath more abundantly contributed to his glory; why am I notwithstanding judged as a sinner?
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, if my falsehood redounds to the glory of God, by making his truthfulness more apparent, why am I like others, still condemned as a sinner?
Webster
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Weymouth New Testament
If, for instance, a falsehood of mine has made God's truthfulness more conspicuous, redounding to His glory, why am I judged all the same as a sinner?
Williams New Testament
But, as you say, if the truthfulness of God has redounded to His glory because of my falsehood, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
World English Bible
For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Worrell New Testament
But, if the truth of God, through my lie, abounded unto His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Worsley New Testament
"But, say you, if the truth of God hath abounded unto his glory through my falshood, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Youngs Literal Translation
for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?
Interlinear
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Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 3:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Crowds By The Sea
6 May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? 7 But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner? 8 And [why] not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come [of it]? Their condemnation is just!
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Cross References
1 Kings 13:26-32
When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard, he said, "It [is] the man of God who disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh, and Yahweh has given him to the lion. He tore him in pieces and killed him according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to him."
2 Kings 8:10-15
Elisha said to him, "Go; say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but Yahweh has shown me that he certainly will die."
Isaiah 10:6-7
I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.
Matthew 26:34
Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that during this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times!"
Matthew 26:69-75
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a female slave came up to him [and] said, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean."
Acts 2:23
this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed [by] nailing to [a cross] through the hand of lawless men.
Acts 13:27-29
For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, [because they] did not recognize this one, and the voices of the prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled [them] [by] condemning [him].
Romans 3:4
May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged."
Romans 9:19-20
Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?
Genesis 37:8-9
Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And {they hated him even more} on account of his dream and because of his words.
Genesis 37:20
Now then, come, let us kill him and throw him in one of the pits. Then we will say a wild animal devoured him. Then we will see what his dreams become."
Genesis 44:1-14
Then he commanded [the one] who [was] over his household, saying, "Fill the sacks of the men [with] food as much as they are able to carry, and put each one's money in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 50:18-20
Then his brothers went also and fell before him and said, "Behold, we [are] your servants."
Exodus 3:19
But I myself know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go {unless compelled by a strong hand}.
Exodus 14:5
And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people fled, and the heart of Pharaoh was changed and [that of] his servants toward the people, and they said, "What [is] this we have done, that we have released Israel from serving us!"
Exodus 14:30
And Yahweh saved Israel on that day from the hand of Egypt, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.
1 Kings 13:17-18
For a word [came] to me by the word of Yahweh, 'You shall not eat food, nor shall you drink water there. You shall not return to go by the way that you came.'"