I will bring my knowledge from far away and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Romans 3:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 By no means! Although every human is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written, “So that you may be justified in your words and you will prevail when you go to trial.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition By no means! Let God be found true though every human being is false and a liar, as it is written, That You may be justified and shown to be upright in what You say, and prevail when You are judged [by sinful men]. [Ps. 51:4.] American Standard Version (1901) God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment. Common English Bible Absolutely not! God must be true, even if every human being is a liar, as it is written: “So that it can show that you are right in your words; ” “and you will triumph when you are judged.” Catholic Public Domain Version For God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: "Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
I will bring my knowledge from far away and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.
The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted your name and your word above everything.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old.
the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”
Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified this, that God is true.
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their stumbling salvation has come to the gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
Do we then overthrow the law through this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.
What then are we to say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
But if, in our effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;
Without any doubt, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.
in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—
so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.
Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens: