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What then? If (A)some [a]did not believe, does their [b]unbelief abolish the faithfulness of God? (B)May it never be! Rather, let God be true and every man (C)a liar, as it is written,

(D)That You may be justified in Your words,
And overcome when You [c]are judged.”

But if our unrighteousness [d](E)demonstrates the righteousness of God, (F)what shall we say? Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous? ((G)I am speaking in human terms.) (H)May it never be! For otherwise, how will (I)God judge the world? 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? And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “(L)Let us do evil that good may come”? [e]Their condemnation is just.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:3 Or were unfaithful
  2. Romans 3:3 Or unfaithfulness
  3. Romans 3:4 Lit in Your judging
  4. Romans 3:5 Or commends
  5. Romans 3:8 Lit Whose