Romans 3:4 Cross References - ISV

⁴ Of course not! God is true, even if everyone else is a liar. As it is written, “You are right when you speak, and win your case when you go into court.”

⁴ Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God—never unjust— righteous and upright is he.

³ I’ll take what I know to its logical conclusion and ascribe righteousness to my Creator,

⁸ Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you’re righteous?

⁴ Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done what was evil in your sight. As a result, you are just in your pronouncement and clear in your judgment.

⁹ Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.

⁵ for the LORD is good and his gracious love stands forever. His faithfulness remains from generation to generation.

¹¹ and speak hastily, “All people are liars!”

¹⁶⁰ The sum of your word is truth, and each righteous ordinance of yours is everlasting.

² I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

²⁰ You will remain true to Jacob, and merciful to Abraham, as you promised our ancestors long ago.

¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Absolved from every act of sin, is wisdom by her kith and kin.”

¹⁶ He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.”
Those who heard him said, “That must never happen!”

³³ The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.

⁶ Of course not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world? ⁷ For if through my falsehood God’s truthfulness glorifies him even more, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

³¹ Do we, then, abolish the Law by this faith? Of course not! Instead, we uphold the Law.

² Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

¹⁵ What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under Law but under grace? Of course not!

⁷ The Law Shows Us What Sin IsWhat should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn’t have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn’t have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, “You must not covet.”

¹³ The Problem of the Sin that Lives in UsNow, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

¹⁴ What can we say, then? God is not unrighteous, is he? Of course not!

¹ God’s Love for His PeopleSo I ask, “God has not rejected his people, has he?” Of course not! I am an Israeli myself, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.

¹¹ The Salvation of the GentilesAnd so I ask, “They have not stumbled so as to fall, have they?” Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to the gentiles to make the Jews jealous.

¹⁵ You know that your bodies belong to the Messiah, don’t you? Should I take what belongs to the Messiah and unite them with a prostitute? Certainly not!

¹⁸ As certainly as God is faithful, we haven’t talked to you with mixed messages like that.

¹⁷ Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah is serving the interests of sin? Of course not!

²¹ I do not misapply God’s grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah died for nothing.

¹⁴ But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!

² which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.

¹⁸ so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might be encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

¹⁰ The person who believes in the Son of God believes this testimony personally. The person who does not believe God has made him a liar by not believing the testimony that he has given about his Son.

²⁰ We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true God. We are in union with the one who is true, his Son Jesus the Messiah, who is the true God and eternal life.

⁷ The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia“To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia, write: ‘The one who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens a door that no one can shut, and who shuts a door that no one can open, ‘says this: