Romans 3:7 Cross References - Moffatt

⁷ You say, "If my perfidy serves to make the truthfulness of God redound to his glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

³⁴ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you will disown me three times this very night, before the cock crows."

⁶⁹ Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A maidservant came up and said to him, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too." ⁷⁰ But he denied it before them all; "I do not know what you mean," he said. ⁷¹ When he went out to the gateway another maidservant noticed him and said to those who were there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Again he denied it; he swore, "I do not know the man." ⁷³ After a little the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them too. Why, your accent betrays you!" ⁷⁴ At this he broke out cursing and swearing, "I do not know the man." At that moment a cock crowed. ⁷⁵ Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said, that 'before the cock crows you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly.

²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

²⁷ The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath; ²⁸ though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death, ²⁹ and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.

⁴ Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

¹⁹ "Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?" ²⁰ But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?"