6Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
6Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness?
4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."
5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)
6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
7 Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
8 Why not say--as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say--"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved.
3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:6(I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?
3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:6Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?
3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:6By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:6May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
3:6let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?
3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?