Not at all! Let God be true,(A) and every human being a liar.(B) As it is written:

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

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Read full chapter

Against you, you only, have I sinned(A)
    and done what is evil in your sight;(B)
so you are right in your verdict
    and justified when you judge.(C)

Read full chapter

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Read full chapter

11 in my alarm I said,
    “Everyone is a liar.”(A)

Read full chapter

11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Read full chapter

17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners,(A) doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!(B)

Read full chapter

17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Read full chapter

18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie,(A) we who have fled to take hold of the hope(B) set before us may be greatly encouraged.

Read full chapter

18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Read full chapter

in the hope of eternal life,(A) which God, who does not lie,(B) promised before the beginning of time,(C)

Read full chapter

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Read full chapter

He is the Rock,(A) his works are perfect,(B)
    and all his ways are just.
A faithful God(C) who does no wrong,
    upright(D) and just is he.(E)

Read full chapter

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Read full chapter

20 We know also that the Son of God has come(A) and has given us understanding,(B) so that we may know him who is true.(C) And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.(D)

Read full chapter

20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Read full chapter

I get my knowledge from afar;(A)
    I will ascribe justice to my Maker.(B)

Read full chapter

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Read full chapter

33 Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful.

Read full chapter

33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

Read full chapter

160 All your words are true;
    all your righteous laws are eternal.(A)

Read full chapter

160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Read full chapter

For the Lord is good(A) and his love endures forever;(B)
    his faithfulness(C) continues through all generations.

Read full chapter

For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Read full chapter

To the Church in Philadelphia

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia(A) write:

These are the words of him who is holy(B) and true,(C) who holds the key of David.(D) What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

Read full chapter

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

Read full chapter