Romans 3:4

A Conservative Version

May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.

Cross References

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and may prevail (LXX/NT) when thou are criticized (LXX/NT).

Psalm 116:11

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Galatians 2:17

But if, while seeking to be made righteous in Christ, we ourselves were also found sinful, then is Christ an aide of sin? May it not happen!

Hebrews 6:18

So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life, which the non-lying God promised before times eternal,

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Job 36:3

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my maker.

John 3:33

He who has received his testimony has set a seal that God is true.

Psalm 119:160

The sum of thy word is truth, and every one of thy righteous ordinances [is] forever.

Revelation 3:7

And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE God, and the eternal life.

Romans 9:14

What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen!

Psalm 138:2

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou have magnified thy word above all thy name.

Micah 7:20

Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the loving kindness to Abraham, which thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Psalm 100:5

For LORD is good. His loving kindness [is] forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

1 John 5:10

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.

Galatians 2:21

I do not disregard the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, then Christ died in vain.

Romans 6:15

What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!

Romans 3:31

Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold the man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! And wisdom is justified from her children.

Job 40:8

Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

Galatians 6:14

But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Romans 11:1

I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.

2 Corinthians 1:18

But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no.

Romans 11:11

I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

Romans 7:7

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

Romans 6:2

May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

Luke 20:16

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it not happen!

Romans 7:13

Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

1 Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by heavenly agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.