Romans 3:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

No, indeed! God tells the truth, even if everyone else is a liar. The Scriptures say about God, “Your words will be proved true, and in court you will win your case.”

Cross References

Job 36:3

God always does right— and this knowledge comes straight from God.

Job 40:8

Are you trying to prove that you are innocent by accusing me of injustice?

Psalm 100:5

The LORD is good! His love and faithfulness will last for ever.

Psalm 116:11

though in my confusion I said, “I can't trust anyone!”

Psalm 119:160

All you say can be trusted; your teachings are true and will last for ever.

Psalm 138:2

I worship at your holy temple and praise you for your love and your faithfulness. You were true to your word and made yourself more famous than ever before.

Psalm 51:4

You are really the one I have sinned against; I have disobeyed you and have done wrong. So it is right and fair for you to correct and punish me.

Psalm 62:9

We humans are only a breath; none of us are truly great. All of us together weigh less than a puff of air.

Micah 7:20

You will keep your word and be faithful to Jacob and to Abraham, as you promised our ancestors many years ago.

Matthew 11:19

But the Son of Man goes around eating and drinking, and you say, “That man eats and drinks too much! He is even a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” Yet Wisdom is shown to be right by what it does.

Luke 20:16

I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those tenants and let someone else have his vineyard.” When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”

John 3:33

But everyone who does believe him has shown that God is truthful.

Romans 11:1

Am I saying that God has turned his back on his people? Certainly not! I am one of the people of Israel, and I myself am a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:11

Do I mean that the people of Israel fell, never to get up again? Certainly not! Their failure made it possible for the Gentiles to be saved, and this will make the people of Israel jealous.

Romans 3:31

Do we destroy the Law by our faith? Not at all! We make it even more powerful.

Romans 6:15

What does all this mean? Does it mean we are free to sin, because we are ruled by God's wonderful kindness and not by the Law? Certainly not!

Romans 6:2

No, we should not! If we are dead to sin, how can we go on sinning?

Romans 7:13

Am I saying that something good caused my death? Certainly not! It was sin that killed me by using something good. Now we can see how terrible and evil sin really is.

Romans 7:7

Does this mean that the Law is sinful? Certainly not! But if it had not been for the Law, I would not have known what sin is really like. For example, I would not have known what it means to want something that belongs to someone else, unless the Law had told me not to do that.

Romans 9:14

Are we saying that God is unfair? Certainly not!

1 Corinthians 6:15

Don't you know that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? Is it right for me to join part of the body of Christ to a prostitute? No, it isn't!

2 Corinthians 1:18

God can be trusted, and so can I, when I say that our answer to you has always been “Yes” and never “No”.

Galatians 2:17

When we Jews started looking for a way to please God, we discovered that we are sinners too. Does this mean that Christ is the one who makes us sinners? No, it doesn't!

Galatians 2:21

I don't turn my back on God's undeserved kindness. If we can be acceptable to God by obeying the Law, it was useless for Christ to die.

Galatians 6:14

But I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his cross, the world is dead as far as I am concerned, and I am dead as far as the world is concerned.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The LORD is a mighty rock, and he never does wrong. God can always be trusted to bring justice.

1 Timothy 3:16

Here is the great mystery of our religion: Christ came as a human. The Spirit proved that he pleased God, and he was seen by angels. Christ was preached to the nations. People in this world put their faith in him, and he was taken up to glory.

Titus 1:2

Then they will have the hope of eternal life that God promised long ago. And God never tells a lie!

Hebrews 6:18

God cannot tell lies! And so his promises and vows are two things that can never be changed. We have run to God for safety. Now his promises should greatly encourage us to take hold of the hope that is right in front of us.

1 John 5:10

If we have faith in God's Son, we have believed what God has said. But if we don't believe what God has said about his Son, it is the same as calling God a liar.

1 John 5:20

We know that Jesus Christ the Son of God has come and has shown us the true God. And because of Jesus, we now belong to the true God who gives eternal life.

Revelation 3:7

This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: I am the one who is holy and true, and I have the keys that belonged to David. When I open a door, no one can close it. And when I close a door, no one can open it. Listen to what I say.