Romans 3:4

Modern English Version

God forbid! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may prevail in Your judging.”

Cross References

Job 36:3

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

Job 40:8

“Will you indeed annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me, that you may be righteous?

Psalm 100:5

For the Lord is good; His mercy endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 116:11

I said in my alarm, “All men are liars.”

Psalm 119:160

The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

Psalm 138:2

I will bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and for Your truth, for You have magnified above all things Your name and Your word.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when you speak, and blameless when You pass judgment.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are but a vapor; men of high degree are a lie; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than vapor.

Micah 7:20

You will give faithfulness to Jacob and benevolence to Abraham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a gluttonous man, a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Luke 20:16

He will come and kill these vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “May it not be so!”

John 3:33

He who has received His testimony has certified that God is true.

Romans 11:1

I say then, has God rejected His people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:11

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

Romans 3:31

Do we then make the law void through faith? God forbid! Instead, we establish the law.

Romans 6:15

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid!

Romans 6:2

God forbid! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Romans 7:13

Therefore has that which is good become death unto me? God forbid! Rather, sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was working death in me through that which is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Romans 7:7

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I did not know sin, except through the law. I would not have known coveting if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 9:14

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid!

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not know that your bodies are the parts of Christ? Shall I then take the parts of Christ and make them the parts of a harlot? God forbid!

2 Corinthians 1:18

But as God is true, we did not tell you “Yes” and “No.”

Galatians 2:17

If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found to be sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin? God forbid!

Galatians 2:21

I do not nullify the grace of God. For if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Galatians 6:14

God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the rock; His work is perfect; for all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without injustice; righteous and upright is He.

1 Timothy 3:16

Without question, great is the mystery of godliness: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began,

Hebrews 6:18

So that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

1 John 5:10

Whoever believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he does not believe the testimony that God gave about His Son.

1 John 5:20

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 —His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Revelation 3:7

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens, says these things: