Romans 3:7

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Romans 3:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

6 Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

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

8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

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Genesis 37:8

“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

Genesis 37:9

Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Genesis 37:20

“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

Genesis 44:1

Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 44:2

Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.

Genesis 44:3

At daybreak, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.

Genesis 44:4

They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

Genesis 44:5

Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!’”

Genesis 44:6

When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.

Genesis 44:7

“Why does my lord say these things?” they asked. “Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

Genesis 44:8

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

Genesis 44:9

If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

Genesis 44:10

“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”

Genesis 44:11

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

Genesis 44:12

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Genesis 44:13

Then they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.

Genesis 44:14

When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

Genesis 50:18

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

Genesis 50:19

But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50:20

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Exodus 3:19

But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.

Exodus 14:5

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

Exodus 14:30

That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.

1 Kings 13:17

For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

1 Kings 13:18

Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,

1 Kings 13:26

When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”

1 Kings 13:27

Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it,

1 Kings 13:28

and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.

1 Kings 13:29

So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

1 Kings 13:30

Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”

1 Kings 13:31

After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

1 Kings 13:32

for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

2 Kings 8:10

Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”

2 Kings 8:11

Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.

2 Kings 8:12

“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 8:13

“But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”

2 Kings 8:14

So Hazael left Elisha and went to his master, who asked him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he replied, “He told me that you would surely recover.”

2 Kings 8:15

But the next day Hazael took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over the king’s face. So Ben-hadad died, and Hazael reigned in his place.

Matthew 26:34

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”

Matthew 26:69

Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.

Matthew 26:70

But he denied it before them all: “I do not know what you are talking about.”

Matthew 26:71

When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

Matthew 26:72

And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”

Matthew 26:73

After a little while, those standing nearby came up to Peter. “Surely you are one of them,” they said, “for your accent gives you away.”

Matthew 26:74

At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.

Matthew 26:75

Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Romans 9:19

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

Acts 2:23

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Acts 13:27

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Acts 13:28

And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

Acts 13:29

When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.