KJV King James Version
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 3:3
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
WEB World English Bible
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
ASV American Standard Version
For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?
Surrounding context — Romans 3
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
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.
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)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
τίG5101 · tiswhich?γὰρG1063 · garforεἰG1487 · eiifἠπίστησάνG569 · apisteōto disbelieveτινες;G5100 · tisoneμὴG3361 · mēnotἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀπιστίαG570 · apistiaunbeliefαὐτῶνG846 · autosit/s/heτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπίστινG4102 · pistisfaithτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεοῦG2316 · theosGodκαταργήσει;G2673 · katargeōto abate
Cross-references
2 Timothy 2:13If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.Hebrews 4:2For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it].Romans 9:6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel:Titus 1:1-2Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;Isaiah 55:11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.2 Thessalonians 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;Psalm 84:7They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.Romans 11:1-7I 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.1 Samuel 15:29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.Numbers 23:19God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?Romans 10:16But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?Isaiah 54:9-10For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.Jeremiah 33:24-26Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.John 1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.Isaiah 65:15-16And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:Romans 11:29For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.
CLASSIC COMMENTARY & PREACHING
Spurgeon on Romans 3:3
Read Charles H. Spurgeon material whose primary Scripture is this verse or passage.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Romans 3:3
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →