Romans 3:4-5
[FONT="]4 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.[/FONT]
[FONT="]5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
What comes after is Paul speaking as if he wasn't made Righteous by faith in Christ.
Romans 3:6-10
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[FONT="]6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?[/FONT]
[FONT="]7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?[/FONT]
[FONT="]8 And 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.[/FONT]
[FONT="]9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;[/FONT]
[FONT="]10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Men are without hope of righteousness when relying on their own strength and understanding.
But we do have hope. Its just not in ourselves.
Romans 3:21-26
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[FONT="]21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;[/FONT]
[FONT="]22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:[/FONT]
[FONT="]23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;[/FONT]
[FONT="]24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:[/FONT]
[FONT="]25 Whom 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;[/FONT]
[FONT="]26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Pauls "lie" was in pretending for a second that he was like everyone else, without hope in the world, to prove a point.[/FONT]
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