Romans 3:3-10
New American Standard Bible
3 What then? If (A)some [a]did not believe, their [b]unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? 4 [c](B)Far from it! Rather, God must prove to be true, though every person be found (C)a liar, as it is written:
5 But if our unrighteousness [e](E)demonstrates the righteousness of God, (F)what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? ((G)I am speaking from a human viewpoint.) 6 (H)Far from it! For otherwise, how will (I)God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie (J)the truth of God abounded to His glory, (K)why am I also still being judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say (just as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “(L)Let’s do evil that good may come of it”? [f]Their condemnation is deserved.
9 What then? [g](M)Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both (N)Jews and (O)Greeks are (P)all under sin; 10 as it is written:
“(Q)There is no righteous person, not even one;
Footnotes
- Romans 3:3 Or were unfaithful
- Romans 3:3 Or unfaithfulness
- Romans 3:4 Lit May it never happen! And so throughout the ch
- Romans 3:4 Or in Your judging
- Romans 3:5 I.e., by requiring His judgment
- Romans 3:8 Lit Whose
- Romans 3:9 Or Are we worse
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