Romans 3:6 · KJV
“God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?”
— Romans 3:6
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? {Is} God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Romans 3 — Context
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? {Is} God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8And not {rather}, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Cross References
Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Acts 17:31
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by {that} man whom he hath ordained; {whereof} he hath given assurance unto all {men}, in that he hath raised him from the dead. {hath given...: or, offered faith}
Job 8:3
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Romans 2:16
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Psalms 96:13
Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Job 34:17-19
Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? {govern: Heb. bind?}
Psalms 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God {is} judge himself. Selah.
Psalms 9:8
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.