Romans 3:5

Jews Still Have An Advantage

⁴ God must prove true, though every man prove a liar! As Scripture says of God-'That thou mayest be pronounced righteous in what thou sayest, and gain thy cause when men would judge thee.' ⁵ But what if our wrong-doing makes God's righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a man.) Heaven forbid! ⁶ Otherwise how can 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 can but speak as men do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of Righteousness, which leads to holiness.

Galatians 3:15

To take an illustration, Brothers, from daily life--No one sets aside even an agreement between two men, when once it has been confirmed, nor does he add conditions to it.

1 Corinthians 9:8

Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the Law also say the same?

Romans 2:5

Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself Wrath on the 'Day of Wrath,' when God's justice as a judge will be revealed;

Romans 4:1

What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation?

Romans 7:7

What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet.

Romans 3:7

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?

Romans 3:19

Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and the whole world become liable to the judgment of God.

Romans 3:25-26

For God set him before the world, to be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness, and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins that men had previously committed;

Romans 6:1

What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied?

Romans 8:20-21

For Nature was made subject to imperfection-not by its own choice, but owing to him who made it so--

Romans 9:13-14

The words of Scripture are-'I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.'

Romans 9:18-20

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.

Romans 12:19

Never avenge yourselves, dear friends, but make way for the Wrath of God; for Scripture declares--'"It is for me to avenge, I will requite," says the Lord.'

1 Corinthians 15:32

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!

2 Thessalonians 1:6-9

Since God deems it just to inflict suffering upon those who are now inflicting suffering upon you,

Revelation 15:3

They are singing the song of Moses, the Servant of God, and the song of the Lamb-- 'Great and marvelous are thy deeds, O Lord, our God, the Almighty. Righteous and true are thy ways, Eternal King.

Revelation 16:5-7

And I heard the Angel of the Waters saying-- 'Righteous art thou, thou who art and who wast, the Holy One, in inflicting this judgment;

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O Heaven, and People of Christ, and Apostles, and Prophets, for God has avenged you on her!