Romans 3:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ But if our unrighteousness thus establishes and exhibits the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust and wrong to inflict His wrath upon us [Jews]? I speak in a [purely] human way.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

Common English Bible

⁵ But if our lack of righteousness confirms God’s justice, what will we say? That God, who brings wrath upon us, isn’t just (I’m speaking rhetorically)?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ But if even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

Romans 3:5 Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Nahum 1:2

The Lord is a jealous God and avenging, the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.

Romans 12:19

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 2:5

But by 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.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Romans 3:7

But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

Romans 4:1

What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?

Romans 5:8

But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Romans 6:1

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 7:7

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?

Romans 9:30

What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;

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.”

1 Corinthians 9:8

Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same?

2 Corinthians 6:4

but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,

2 Corinthians 7:11

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.

Galatians 2:18

But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor.

Galatians 3:15

To give a human example, brethren: no one annuls even a man's will, or adds to it, once it has been ratified.

Revelation 15:3

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and wonderful are thy deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are thy ways, O King of the ages!

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”