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Romans 3:6
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Of course not. If God could not punish us, how could he judge the world?
By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde?
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
Of course not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?Genesis 18:25; Job 1:8:3; 34:17;">[xr]
Far from it! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
No! If God could not punish us, he could not judge the world.
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?
By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
I speak as a man. God forbid; for then how should God judge the world?
No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?)
Aftir man Y seie. God forbede. Ellis hou schal God deme this world?
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
But the answer is, "No." Otherwise, how could God judge the world?
Certainly not! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
Heaven forbid! Else, how could God judge the world?
Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?
Not so; otherwise how shall Aloha judge the world ?
Far from it. Otherwise how will God judge the world?
God forbid: for then how shall God iudge the world?
Of course not! If God were not entirely fair, how would he be qualified to judge the world?
No, not at all! If it were wrong for God to punish us, how could He judge the world?
By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?
Far be it: for then how could God judge the world?
Far be it! Else how shall God judge the world?
(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?
God forbyd. For howe then shall God iudge the worlde?
By no means! If God is not just, how can he judge the world?
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
Let it not be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?
let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?
God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde?
not at all: for then how could God judge the world?
So what difference does it make who's a Jew and who isn't, who has been trained in God's ways and who hasn't? As it turns out, it makes a lot of difference—but not the difference so many have assumed. First, there's the matter of being put in charge of writing down and caring for God's revelation, these Holy Scriptures. So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn't abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness? Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same: Your words stand fast and true; Rejection doesn't faze you. But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God's rightdoing, shouldn't we be commended for helping out? Since our bad words don't even make a dent in his good words, isn't it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up. The answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn't do the straightening?
Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?
Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?
That's foolish talk. God is completely fair and the only one qualified to judge the whole world.
May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
God forbid: Romans 3:4
for then: Genesis 18:25, Job 8:3, Job 34:17-19, Psalms 9:8, Psalms 11:5-7, Psalms 50:6, Psalms 96:13, Psalms 98:9, Acts 17:31
Reciprocal: Genesis 12:13 - Say Genesis 18:23 - Wilt Joshua 7:8 - what shall Joshua 22:29 - God forbid Joshua 24:16 - General 1 Kings 21:3 - The Lord 2 Chronicles 19:7 - no iniquity Psalms 96:10 - judge Psalms 119:137 - General Psalms 145:17 - righteous Isaiah 10:22 - with Jeremiah 12:1 - Righteous Mark 16:16 - that believeth and Romans 2:16 - God Romans 9:14 - Is there unrighteousness 1 Corinthians 6:15 - God Galatians 2:17 - God Galatians 3:21 - God forbid
Cross-References
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
So the Lord God said to the serpent:
I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will strike your head,and you will strike his heel.
And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:
You will eat bread by the sweat of your browuntil you return to the ground,since you were taken from it.For you are dust,and you will return to dust.”
the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.
After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, five pounds of silver, and a bar of gold weighing a pound and a quarter, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.”
Gill's Notes on the Bible
God forbid, for then how shall God judge the world?] ×××××, "far be it"; such a notion is detestable and abominable, nor can it be fairly deduced from what is asserted; for it is the unrighteousness of his own people, on whom he takes no vengeance personally, and not the unrighteousness of others, on whom he does take vengeance, which commends his righteousness; and supposing it was that of others, God cannot be unrighteous in performing his threatenings, in a way of righteousness: moreover, unrighteousness is sin, and does not of itself but by accident, illustrate the righteousness of God; wherefore God is not unjust in punishing it; for how should God "judge the world?" whereas nothing is more certain than that he will do it, and that this will be done in righteousness; which could not be, was he unrighteous in taking vengeance; which will be one considerable part of that righteous judgment.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
God forbid - Note, Romans 3:4.
For then - If it be admitted that it would be unjust for God to inflict punishment.
How shall God ... - How will it be right or consistent for him to judge the world.
Judge - To âjudgeâ implies the possibility and the correctness of âcondemningâ the guilty; for if it were not right to condemn them, judgment would be a farce. This does not mean that God would condemn all the world; but that the fact of judging people implied the possibility and propriety of condemning those who were guilty. It is remarkable that the apostle does not attempt to explain how it could be that God could take occasion from the sins of people to promote his glory; nor does he even admit the fact; but he meets directly the objection. To understand the force of his answer, it must be remembered that it was an admitted fact, a fact which no one among the Jews would call in question, that God would judge the world. This fact was fully taught in their own writings, Genesis 18:25; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Ecclesiastes 11:9. It was besides an admitted point with them that God would condemn the pagan I world; and perhaps the term âworldâ here refers particularly to them.
But how could this be if it were not right for God to inflict punishment at all? The inference of the objector, therefore, could not be true; though the apostle does not tell us how it was consistent to inflict punishment for offences from which God took occasion to promote his glory. It may be remarked, however, that God will judge offences, not from what he may do in overruling them, but from the nature of the crime itself. The question is not, what good God may bring out of it, but what does the crime itself deserve? what is the character of the offender? what was his intention? It is not what God may do to overrule the offence when it is committed. The just punishment of the murderer is to be determined by the Law, and by his own desert; and not from any reputation for integrity and uprightness which the judge may manifest on his trial; or from any honor which may accrue to the police for detecting him; or any security which may result to the commonwealth from his execution; or from any honor which the Law may gain as a just law by his condemnation. Nor should any of these facts and advantages which may result from his execution, be pleaded in bar of his condemnation. So it is with the sinner under the divine administration. It is indeed a truth Psalms 76:10 that the wrath of man shall praise God, and that he will take occasion from peopleâs wickedness to glorify himself as a just judge and moral governor; but this will be no ground of acquittal for the sinner.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 3:6. APOSTLE. God forbid — μη γενοιÏο, by no means. God cannot be unjust; were he unjust, he could not be qualified to judge the world, nor inflict that punishment on the unfaithful Jews, to which I refer.
