7Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"


In Context

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.

9 What shall we conclude then? Are we any better ? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.

Romans 3:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:7For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:7For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:7for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:7For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?