Romans 3:5

If human sin highlights God's righteousness, is God then unjust to punish it? Paul raises and rejects a twisted objection, noting he speaks in merely human terms.

Cross-references · 24

• Rom 6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
• Gal 3:15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
• Rom 9:18–20Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
• 1 Cor 9:8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
• Rom 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 4:1What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
• Nah 1:2God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
• Rom 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Deut 32:39–43See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
• Rom 3:25–26Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
• 2 Th 1:6–9Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
• Rom 9:13–14As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
• Ps 94:1–2O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
• Nah 1:6–8Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
• Rom 6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
• Rev 18:20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
• 1 Cor 15:32If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
• Rev 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
• Rom 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Rom 3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
• Rev 16:5–7And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
• Rom 8:20–21For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
• Rom 12:19Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
• Ps 58:10–11The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

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