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Romans 3:5 — Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing—and how to apply it today
King James Version
" But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) "
Romans 3:5
Verse in Context
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For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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Romans 3:1
"What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?"
Romans 3:2
"Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."
Romans 3:3
"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?"
Romans 3:4
"God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."
Romans 3:6
"God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?"
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