For what, though some did not [a]believe? shall their unbelief make the [b]faith of God without effect?

God forbid: yea, let God be true, and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mightest be [c]justified in thy words, and overcome, [d]when thou art judged.

[e]Now if our [f]unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? is God unrighteous which punisheth? (I speak as [g]a man.)

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  1. Romans 3:3 Break the covenant.
  2. Romans 3:3 The faith that God gave.
  3. Romans 3:4 That thy justice might be plainly seen.
  4. Romans 3:4 Forasmuch as thou showest forth an evident token of thy righteousness, constancy and faith, by preserving him who had broken his covenant.
  5. Romans 3:5 Another prevention, issuing out of the former answer: that the justice of God is in such sort commended and set forth by our unrighteousness, that therefore God forgetteth not that he is the judge of the world, and therefore a most severe revenger of unrighteousness.
  6. Romans 3:5 Treachery, and all the fruits thereof.
  7. Romans 3:5 Therefore I speak not these words in mine own person, as though I thought so, but this is the talk of man’s wisdom, which is not subject to the will of God.

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4