Romans 3:5 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁵ But if our wrongdoing brings out the uprightness of God, what are we to say? Is it wrong in God (I am putting it in ordinary human terms) to inflict punishment?

⁵ But in your obstinacy and impenitence you are storing up wrath for yourself on the Day of Wrath, when the justice of God will burst forth.

⁷ But, you say, if a falsehood of mine has brought great honor to God by bringing out his truthfulness, why am I tried for being a sinner?

¹⁹ Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

²⁵ For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)— ²⁶ to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

¹ Then what are we to say about our ancestor Abraham?

¹ Then what shall we conclude? Are we to continue to sin to increase the spread of mercy?

¹⁹ I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.

⁷ Then what shall we conclude? That the Law is sin? Certainly not! Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should never have learned what sin was; I should not have known what it was to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

²⁰ For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope ²¹ that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God.

¹³ As the Scripture says, "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau." ¹⁴ What do we conclude? That God is guilty of injustice? By no means.

¹⁸ So he has mercy on anyone he pleases, and hardens the heart of anyone he pleases. ¹⁹ "Why, then," you will ask, "does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?" ²⁰ On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

¹⁹ Do not take your revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord."

⁸ Am I saying only what men say? Does not the Law say so too?

³² From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"

¹⁵ To take an illustration, brothers, from daily life: even a human agreement, once ratified, no one annuls or alters.

⁶ since God considers it only just to repay with suffering those who are making you suffer ⁷ and to give rest to you who are suffering and to us, when our Lord Jesus appears from heaven, with his mighty angels ⁸ in a blaze of fire, and takes vengeance on the godless who will not listen to the good news of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They will be punished with eternal ruin and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and his glorious might,

³ and they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your doings, Lord God Almighty! Upright and true are your ways, King of the Ages!

⁵ Then I heard the angel of the waters say, "You are just in pronouncing this sentence, you who are and were, the Holy One; ⁶ for they shed the blood of your people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink, as they deserve." ⁷ And I heard the altar answer, "Yes, Lord God Almighty! Your sentences are true and just."

²⁰ Gloat over her, heaven! and all you people of God, apostles, and prophets, for God has avenged you upon her!"