Romans 3:5

New American Bible - revised edition

But if our wickedness provides proof of God’s righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Should not the judge of all the world do what is just?”

Job 8:3

Does God pervert judgment, does the Almighty pervert justice?

Nahum 1:2

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord, an avenger is the Lord, full of wrath; The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and rages against his enemies;

Romans 12:19

Beloved, do not look for revenge but leave room for the wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 2:5

By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,

Romans 3:19

Now we know that what the law says is addressed to those under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world stand accountable to God,

Romans 3:7

But if God’s truth redounds to his glory through my falsehood, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

Romans 4:1

What then can we say that Abraham found, our ancestor according to the flesh?

Romans 5:8

But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

Romans 6:1

What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not!

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

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 8:31

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

Romans 9:30

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

1 Corinthians 15:32

If at Ephesus I fought with beasts, so to speak, what benefit was it to me? If the dead are not raised: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

1 Corinthians 9:8

Am I saying this on human authority, or does not the law also speak of these things?

2 Corinthians 6:4

on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

2 Corinthians 7:11

For behold what earnestness this godly sorrow has produced for you, as well as readiness for a defense, and indignation, and fear, and yearning, and zeal, and punishment. In every way you have shown yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

Galatians 2:18

But if I am building up again those things that I tore down, then I show myself to be a transgressor.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers, in human terms I say that no one can annul or amend even a human will once ratified.

Revelation 15:3

and they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are your works, Lord God almighty. Just and true are your ways, O king of the nations.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, heaven, you holy ones, apostles, and prophets. For God has judged your case against her.”