What then? If some were unfaithful,(A) will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? Absolutely not!(B) Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar,(C) as it is written:

That you may be justified in your words
and triumph when you judge.[a](D)

But if our unrighteousness highlights[b] God’s righteousness,(E) what are we to say?(F) I am using a human argument:[c](G) Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4 Ps 51:4
  2. 3:5 Or shows, or demonstrates
  3. 3:5 Lit I speak as a man

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