Verse List for ROM 3:7

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) But if my lie exposes God’s truth and so brings him honour, why would he still judge me as a sinner?

OET-LV If but the truth of_ the _god in the my falsehood been _plentiful to the glory of _him, why still also _I as a_sinner am _being _judged?

ULT But if the truth of God through my lie abounds to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?

UST But then you might say, “Suppose this is true, and my lying further glorifies God and how truthful he is. If that is so, then surely God should not still judge me as if I were sinning!

BSB However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why {am} I still condemned as a sinner?

MSB For[fn] if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why {am} I still condemned as a sinner?

BLB But if in my lie, the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

AICNT But if through my falsehood God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

OEB But, if my falsehood redounds to the glory of God, by making his truthfulness more apparent, why am I like others, still condemned as a sinner?

WEBBE & WMBB For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

NET For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

LSV For if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded more to His glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

FBV Someone could say, “Why am I still condemned as a sinner if my lies make the truth of God and his glory more obvious in contrast?”

TCNT [fn]For if through my lie the truth of God abounds to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?

T4T But someone might object and say to me, “The fact that God truly keeps his promises becomes very clear/evident because of my not doing what God has commanded. But the result is that people praise God! So ◄God should no longer say that I should be punished {that he should punish me} on account of my having sinned!/why should God still say that I should be punished {that he should punish me} on account of my having sinned?► [RHQ]

LEB But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?

BBE But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

Moff 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?

Wymth If, for instance, a falsehood of mine has made God's truthfulness more conspicuous, redounding to His glory, why am I judged all the same as a sinner?

ASV But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

DRA For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

YLT for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

Drby For if the truth of [fn]God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

RV But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

SLT For if the truth of God in my lying abounded to his glory; why yet am I judged as sinful?

Wbstr For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

KJB-1769 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
(For if the truth of God hath/has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?)

KJB-1611 For if the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glory; why yet am I also iudged as a sinner?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps For yf the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye, vnto his glory, why am I as yet iudged as a sinner?
(For if the truth of God hath/has more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I as yet judged as a sinner?)

Gnva For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
(For if the verity/truth of God hath/has more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?)

Cvdl For yf the trueth of God be thorow my lye the more excellent vnto his prayse, why shulde I the be iudged yet as a synner?
(For if the truth of God be through my lie the more excellent unto his praise, why should I the be judged yet as a sinner?)

TNT Yf the veritie of God appere moare excellent thorow my lye vnto his prayse why am I hence forth iudged as a synner?
(If the verity/truth of God appear more excellent through my lie unto his praise why am I henceforth judged as a sinner?)

Wycl For if the treuthe of God hath aboundid in my lessyng, in to the glorie of hym, what yit am Y demed as a synner?
(For if the truth of God hath/has aboundid in my lessing, in to the glory of him, what yet am I judged as a sinner?)

Luth Denn so die Wahrheit Gottes durch meine Lüge herrlicher wird zu seinem Preis, warum sollte ich denn noch als ein Sünder gerichtet werden
(Because so the truth God’s through my lie(n)/falsehood more_magnificent becomes to/for his price/prize, why should I because/than still as a sinners directed become)

ClVg Si enim veritas Dei in meo mendacio abundavit in gloriam ipsius: quid adhuc et ego tamquam peccator judicor?[fn]
(When/But_if because the_truth of_God in/into/on mine lie abounded in/into/on glory of_his/her_own: what still and I as_if sinner judger?)

SR-GNT Εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ ˚Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι; ‡

UGNT εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι?

SBL-GNT εἰ ⸀δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι,

RP-GNT Εἰ γὰρ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι;

TC-GNT εἰ [fn]γὰρ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι;