A moment in scripture
Romans 3:7
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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The surrounding passage
- Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
- Romans 3:6
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
- Romans 3:8
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
- Romans 3:9
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.