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God Remains Faithful

Romans 3:7

In 9 translations

BSB
However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
KJV
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
WEB
For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
ASV
But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
LSV
For if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded more to His glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
YLT
for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?
DBY
For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?Elohim
DRC
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
GNV
For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

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  • NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort read δὲ (“however”); Tyndale House, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read γὰρ (“for”).
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  • SBLGNT: δὲ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read δὲ; Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont read γὰρ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι,
RP2018
Εἰ γὰρ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι;
TR-Boyd
Εἰ γὰρ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι;
SCR1894
ει γαρ η αληθεια του θεου εν τω εμω ψευσματι επερισσευσεν εις την δοξαν αυτου τι ετι καγω ως αμαρτωλος κρινομαι

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  • Romans 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
  • Romans 9:19–20One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
  • Acts 13:27–29The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they…
  • Matthew 26:34“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
  • Matthew 26:69–75Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said. But he denied it before them all: “I do not know what you are talking about.”…
  • Isaiah 10:6–7I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. But this is not his intention;…
  • 2 Kings 8:10–15Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.” Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to…
  • Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
  • 1 Kings 13:26–32When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and…
  • 1 Kings 13:17–18For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’” Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word…
  • Exodus 3:19But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
  • Genesis 37:8–9“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements. Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,”…
  • Genesis 37:20“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
  • Genesis 50:18–20His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!” But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God? As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for…
  • Exodus 14:5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
  • Exodus 14:30That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.

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