Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

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?

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?

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

the truth
ἀλήθεια 
Aletheia 
Usage: 87

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

περισσεύω 
Perisseuo 
Usage: 31

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

my
ἐμός 
Emos 
my, mine, mine own, of me, I
Usage: 25

lie
ψεῦσμα 
Pseusma 
lie
Usage: 1

εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

his

Usage: 0

δόξα 
Doxa 
Usage: 141

why
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

yet
ἔτι 
Eti 
Usage: 75

am I also
κἀγώ κἀμοί κἀμέ 
Kago 
and I, I also, so I, I, even I, me also,
Usage: 39

κρίνω 
Krino 
Usage: 84

as
ὡς 
Hos 
as, when, how, as it were, about,
Usage: 417

Context Readings

Crowds By The Sea

6 Not at all! For how will God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner? 8 Why not say, Let us do evil so that good may come? Some people have insulted me by accusing me of saying this very thing! They should be condemned and they will be.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:26-32

The old prophet heard about it and said: That is the prophet who disobeyed Jehovah's command! Jehovah sent the lion to attack and kill him, just as Jehovah said he would.

2 Kings 8:10-15

Elisha answered: Jehovah has revealed to me that he will die. However go to him and tell him that he will recover.

Isaiah 10:6-7

I send him against a godless nation. I commission him against the people of my fury to capture booty and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like mud (clay) in the streets.

Matthew 26:34

Jesus said: I say to you, this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times.

Matthew 26:69-75

Peter was seated in the square outside the house, and a servant-girl came to him. She said: You were with Jesus the Galilean.

Acts 2:23

You took this man and delivered him by the determined counsel (purpose) and foreknowledge of God. With wicked hands you impaled and murdered him.

Acts 13:27-29

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not know Jesus. They fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath when they condemned Jesus.

Romans 3:4

Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged.

Romans 9:19-20

You say to me: Why does he yet find fault? Who resists his purpose (will)?

Genesis 37:8-9

Do you think you are going to be a king and rule over us? his brothers asked. So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of what he said about them.

Genesis 37:20

Let us kill him and throw him into a water pit. We can say that some wild animal ate him. Then we will see what happens to those dreams.

Genesis 44:1-14

Later, Joseph told the servant in charge of his house: Fill the men's grain sacks with as much as they can hold and put their money in the sacks.

Genesis 50:18-20

Then his brothers also came and immediately bowed down in front of him. We are your slaves! they said.

Exodus 3:19

I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion.

Exodus 14:5

The king of Egypt was told that the people had escaped. He and his officials changed their minds and said: What have we done? We have let the Israelites escape, and we have lost them as our slaves!

Exodus 14:30

That day Jehovah saved the people of Israel from the Egyptians. The Israelites saw them lying dead on the seashore.

1 Kings 13:17-18

Jehovah said to me: 'You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.'

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