Romans 3:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ But if my “lie” [i.e., as you Jews call it] would result in God’s truthfulness [about you Jews] increasing the honor He receives, why am I also still judged to be a sinner [by you]?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ But [you say] if through my falsehood God's integrity is magnified and advertised and abounds to His glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Common English Bible

⁷ But if God’s truth is demonstrated by my lie and it increases his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For if the truth of God has abounded, through my falseness, unto his glory, why should I still be judged as such a sinner?

Romans 3:7 Cross References

Matthew 26:34

Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, this [very] night, before the rooster crows, you will deny [knowing] me three times.”

Acts 2:23

Yet, He was handed over to you so that, by lawless men [i.e., the Romans], He was put to death by crucifixion. Now this was all done in harmony with God's full pre-knowledge and [divine] purpose.

Romans 3:4

But let God be truthful, [even if] everyone [else] is a liar. For it is written [Psa. 51:4], “[God], you should be proven right when you speak, and win [your case] when put on trial.”