Romans 3:4 (WEB)
May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
Catechism · 1
“Since God is "true," the members of his people are called to live in the truth.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 3:4; Cf. PS 119:30.
Fathers and councils · 16
Jerome
“I suspect that you, like other men, have occasionally told a lie:for all men are liars, that God alone may be true,and that He may be justified in His words, and may prevail when He judges.” — editor's note: Ps. cxvi. 11; Rom. iii. 4.
Read the whole comment“The Psalmist sings,“Every man is a liar”; and this is supported by apostolical authority: “That God may be true,” says St. Paul, “and every man a liar”; and yet you have lips righteous, spotless, and free from all falsehood.” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And what as to that saying: “Let God be true but every man a liar, as it is written, That Thou mightest be justified in Thy words, and overcome when Thou art judged”?” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…insult to the Father, they do even carry their blasphemy in assault upon the Father, of Whom it is written: “Let God be made truthful, but every man a liar.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
Read the whole comment“God has as an attribute that He is true for it is written: “Let God be true and every man a liar.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For by none other than Thy inspiration do I believe that I can speak the truth, since Thou art the Truth, but every man a liar.” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4, and Ps. cxvi. 11.
Read the whole comment““For God is true, but every man a liar;” for no man is true, except him in whom God speaketh.” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
Read the whole comment“How is it possible that God should be a liar, and man true, when the Scripture saith the contrary, “Every man a liar, God alone true”?” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
Read the whole comment“What is this?” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
Read the whole comment“And the Apostle says, “For God is true, and every man a liar.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
Read the whole comment“But God, as was said, had come through the flesh to men, the truth to liars; for God is true, and every man a liar.” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 4.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For God is true, but every man a liar.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“For God is true, but every man a liar.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“God forbid; for God is true, but every man a liar.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 3, 4.
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John Chrysostom
“God forbid.” ( Rom. iii. 3, 4.)” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Having expanded a thought of this kind at some length in his argument to the Romans, and having retorted upon himself with the counter-conclusion, which thence necessarily follows, that the sinner could no longer be justly blamed, if his…” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 3–9; iv. 1, 2; ix. 14–24; xi. 22–36.
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Cross-references · 37
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Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
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Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Catechism §2465.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 97.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Catechism §2465.
Cited together in Catechism §2465.
Cited together in Catechism §2465.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 69.
Cited together in Catechism §2465.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in Catechism §2465.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 97.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 97.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 69.
Quotes
Quoted from the Septuagint wording.