What if some were unfaithful?(A) Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?(B) Not at all! Let God be true,(C) and every human being a liar.(D) As it is written:

“So that you may be proved right when you speak
    and prevail when you judge.”[a](E)

But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,(F) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)(G) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(H) Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(I) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(J) Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(K) Their condemnation is just!

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4

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