Romans 3:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Of course not! God must be true, though every human being is a liar, as it is written: “That you may be justified in your words, and conquer when you are judged.”

Cross References

Job 36:3

I will assemble arguments from afar, and for my maker I will establish what is right.

Job 40:8

Would you refuse to acknowledge my right? Would you condemn me that you may be justified?

Psalm 100:5

good indeed is the Lord, His mercy endures forever, his faithfulness lasts through every generation.

Psalm 116:11

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

Psalm 119:160

Your every word is enduring; all your righteous judgments are forever.

Psalm 138:2

I bow low toward your holy temple; I praise your name for your mercy and faithfulness. For you have exalted over all your name and your promise.

Psalm 51:4

Thoroughly wash away my guilt; and from my sin cleanse me.

Psalm 62:9

Trust God at all times, my people! Pour out your hearts to God our refuge! Selah

Micah 7:20

You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and loyalty to Abraham, As you have sworn to our ancestors from days of old.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” Reproaches to Unrepentant Towns.

Luke 20:16

He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn over the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they exclaimed, “Let it not be so!”

John 3:33

Whoever does accept his testimony certifies that God is trustworthy.

Romans 11:1

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:11

Hence I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? Of course not! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous.

Romans 3:31

Are we then annulling the law by this faith? Of course not! On the contrary, we are supporting the law.

Romans 6:15

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!

Romans 6:2

How can we who died to sin yet live in it?

Romans 7:13

Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.

Romans 7:7

What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not! Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 9:14

What then are we to say? Is there injustice on the part of God? Of course not!

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take Christ’s members and make them the members of a prostitute? Of course not!

2 Corinthians 1:18

As God is faithful, our word to you is not “yes” and “no.”

Galatians 2:17

But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Of course not!

Galatians 2:21

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

Galatians 6:14

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock—how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he!

1 Timothy 3:16

Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion, Who was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed to the Gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began,

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to hold fast to the hope that lies before us.

1 John 5:10

Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar by not believing the testimony God has given about his Son.

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment to know the one who is true. And we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Revelation 3:7

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write this: “‘The holy one, the true, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one shall close, who closes and no one shall open, says this: