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?

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In The 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?

In Context

6Otherwise how can God judge the world?

8Why should we not say – as some people slanderously assert that we do say – ‘Let us do evil that good may come’? The condemnation of such people is indeed just!

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Cross References

Genesis 37:20Come on, let us kill him, and throw him into one of the pits, and then we will say, ‘A fierce beast has devoured him’; and we will see what will become of his dreams!”

Genesis 50:18his brothers also went and fell down before him and said, “See, we are your slaves.”

Matthew 26:34“I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that this very night, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times!”

Matthew Henry on Romans 3:2-19

The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art… Read the whole commentary →

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