Romans 3:7
Good News Translation
But what if my untruth serves God's glory by making his truth stand out more clearly? Why should I still be condemned as a sinner?

New Revised Standard Version
But if through my falsehood God’s truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

Contemporary English Version
Since your lies bring great honor to God by showing how truthful he is, you may ask why God still says you are a sinner.

New American Bible
But if God’s truth redounds to his glory through my falsehood, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

if the truth.

Genesis 37:8,9,20 His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred. . . .

Genesis 44:1-14 And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every one in the top of his sack. . . .

Genesis 50:18-20 And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants. . . .

Exodus 3:19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.

Exodus 14:5,30 And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people was fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with regard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let Israel go from serving us? . . .

1 Kings 13:17,18,26-32 Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest. . . .

2 Kings 8:10-15 And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: but the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die. . . .

Matthew 26:34,69-75 Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee that in this night before the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. . . .

why yet.

Romans 9:19,20 Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will? . . .

Isaiah 10:6,7 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. . . .

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Acts 13:27-29 For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them. . . .

Context
God Remains Faithful
6(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world? 7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner? 8And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.…
Cross References
Romans 3:4
But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 9:19
Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

Romans 3:6
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