The Guilt of the Gentile World

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.

but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowledge and truth in the law—

But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

David Celebrating the Same Truth

Likewise, David also speaks of the blessing of the man God credits righteousness to apart from works:

Israel’s Rejection of Christ

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit—

For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers,