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God Remains Faithful

Romans 3:3

In 9 translations

BSB
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
KJV
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
WEB
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
ASV
For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
LSV
for what, if certain were faithless? Will their faithlessness make the faithfulness of God useless?
YLT
for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?
DBY
For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?Elohim
DRC
For what if some of them have not believed? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid.
GNV
For what, though some did not beleeue? shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
τί γάρ; εἰ ἠπίστησάν τινες, μὴ ἡ ἀπιστία αὐτῶν τὴν πίστιν τοῦ θεοῦ καταργήσει;
RP2018
Τί γὰρ εἰ ἠπίστησάν τινες; Μὴ ἡ ἀπιστία αὐτῶν τὴν πίστιν τοῦ θεοῦ καταργήσει;
TR-Boyd
Τί γὰρ εἰ ἠπίστησάν τινες; Μὴ ἡ ἀπιστία αὐτῶν τὴν πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ καταργήσει;
SCR1894
τι γαρ ει ηπιστησαν τινες μη η απιστια αυτων την πιστιν του θεου καταργησει

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Timothy 2:13if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
  • Hebrews 4:2For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
  • Romans 9:6It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
  • Titus 1:1–2Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness, in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time…
  • Isaiah 55:11so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
  • Romans 11:1–7I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture…
  • Romans 10:16But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
  • Psalms 84:7They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
  • Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  • 1 Samuel 15:29Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
  • Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
  • Jeremiah 33:24–26“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation. This is what the LORD says: If I have not…
  • Isaiah 54:9–10“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you. Though the mountains may be removed and…
  • 2 Corinthians 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
  • Romans 11:29For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

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