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.

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• Rom 6:19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
• Gal 3:15Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
• Rom 9:18–20So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
• 1 Cor 9:8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
• Rom 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 4:1What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
• Nah 1:2Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
• Rom 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
• Deut 32:39–43“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
• Rom 3:25–26whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
• 2 Th 1:6–9Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
• Rom 9:13–14Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
• Ps 94:1–2Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
• Nah 1:6–8Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
• Rom 6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
• Rev 18:20“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
• 1 Cor 15:32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
• Rev 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Rom 3:7For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
• Rev 16:5–7I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
• Rom 8:20–21For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
• Rom 12:19Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
• Ps 58:10–11The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

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