Parallel Verses
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]?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 3:7
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Context Readings
Crowds By The Sea
6 Certainly not, for then how could He judge the world? 7 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]? 8 And why should we not say, "Let us do what is wrong so something good will come from it," as some people slanderously claim that we are saying? These people deserve to be condemned.
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Cross References
Matthew 26:34
Jesus said to him, "Truly I tell you, this [very] night, before the rooster crows, you will deny [knowing] me three times."
Matthew 26:69-75
Now Peter was sitting outside in a courtyard and a servant-girl approached him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the Galilean."
Acts 2:23
Yet, He was handed over to you so that, by lawless men [i.e., the Romans], He was put to death by crucifixion. Now this was all done in harmony with God's full pre-knowledge and [divine] purpose.
Acts 13:27-29
For the people living in Jerusalem, together with their ruling officials, did not understand [that Jesus was the Messiah] or what the message of the prophets, which is read every Sabbath day, really meant. So, [because of this] they [actually] made these Scripture predictions come true by condemning Jesus.
Romans 3:4
But let God be truthful, [even if] everyone [else] is a liar. For it is written [Psa. 51:4], "[God], you should be proven right when you speak, and win [your case] when put on trial."
Romans 9:19-20
But you [i.e., probably an objecting Jew] will say to me, "Why does God still find fault [with people]? For who can [successfully] resist what God wants to do?"