Romans 3:3-8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

³What then? If some did not believe,^(A) will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness? ⁴Absolutely not!^(B) God must be true, even if everyone is a liar,^(C) as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.^(D)^[a]

⁵But if our unrighteousness highlights^[b] God’s righteousness,^(E) what are we to say?^(F) I use a human argument:^[c]^(G) Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath? ⁶Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?^(H) ⁷But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?^(I) ⁸And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”?^(J) Their condemnation is deserved!