May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written,

“In order that you may be justified in your words,
    and may prevail when you are[a] judged.”[b]

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unjust, is he? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.) May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:4 Or, if the form is understood as middle voice, “when you yourself judge”
  2. Romans 3:4 A quotation from Ps 51:4