Romans 3:5-8

God's Righteousness Upheld

5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict f wrath on us? ( g I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could h God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, i why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not j do evil that good may come? - as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

  1. Cross References
    Romans 2:5
    But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
  2. Cross References
    Romans 6:19
    I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
    1 Corinthians 9:8
    Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
    Galatians 3:15
    To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.
    1 Corinthians 15:32
    What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 18:25
    Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?
    Job 8:3
    Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
    Romans 2:16
    On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
  4. Cross References
    Romans 9:19
    You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?
  5. Cross References
    Romans 6:1
    What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
    Romans 6:15
    What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
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