Romans 3:3
Good News Translation
But what if some of them were not faithful? Does this mean that God will not be faithful?

New Revised Standard Version
What if some were unfaithful? Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

Contemporary English Version
It is true that some of them did not believe the message. But does this mean that God cannot be trusted, just because they did not have faith?

New American Bible
What if some were unfaithful? Will their infidelity nullify the fidelity of God?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

if some.

Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.

Romans 10:16 But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report?

Romans 11:1-7 I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. . . .

Hebrews 4:2 For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith of those things they heard.

shall.

Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

1 Samuel 15:29 But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.

Isaiah 54:9,10 This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee. . . .

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Isaiah 65:15,16 And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name. . . .

Jeremiah 33:24-26 Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them? . . .

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny himself.

Hebrews 6:13-18 For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself, . . .

faith.

Psalm 84:7 For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

John 1:16 And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you towards each other aboundeth.

Titus 1:1,2 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness: . . .

Context
God Remains Faithful
2Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them. 3For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid! 4But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.…
Cross References
Romans 10:16
But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report?

2 Timothy 2:13
If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny himself.

Hebrews 4:2
For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith of those things they heard.

Romans 3:2
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