6Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?


In Context

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.

Romans 3:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:6(I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?