Christians only please: Please help with a bible verse if you can. thankyou?

Question

I was after the verse written by Paul where he says something like "If I have lied, but it was for the glory of God, how is it I am still judged" something like that.
thankyou

I am certian I have read something similiar. remeber I am after the SIMILIAR verse, it doesnt say exacty what I wrote

Answer 1

who knows.....it can be translated many different ways as can all bible scripture.

Answer 2

The verse is Rom 3:7. However, the text need to be read from verse four down to and including verse eight to the end to be understood correctly.

Romans 3:4-8 4 Never may that happen! But let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, even as it is written: “That you might be proved righteous in your words and might win when you are being judged.” 5 However, if our unrighteousness brings God’s righteousness to the fore, what shall we say? God is not unjust when he vents his wrath, is he? (I am speaking as a man does.) 6 Never may that happen! How, otherwise, will God judge the world?

7 Yet if by reason of my lie the truth of God has been made more prominent to his glory, why am I also yet being judged as a sinner?

8 And [why] not [say], just as it is falsely charged to us and just as some men state that we say: “Let us do the bad things that the good things may come”? The judgment against those [men] is in harmony with justice.

Answer 3

I don't know of the verse but it sounds like a bible verse. Out of context I can't be sure but I think that he is asking, if he lied for God's will, in other words in a way that would bring glory to God, is it really a sin and will he be judged for it.

Answer 4

You have some work ahead of you if you want to track down the specific verse, but I would look through the last four or five chapters of II Corinthians. This was a letter Paul wrote to the church in Corinth after someone in the church had stirred up rumors that he was embezzling money from them--he was challenging them to judge him.

Also some passages you may be thinking of in I Corinthians 15:9-34, if you want to start there.

Answer 5

Hello, Rose of Sharon (what a nice name).

Actually the verse you may be seeking is just the opposite: 1 Thess 4:6 "That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified."

Although Paul tried to please everyone; being a Jew among the Jews, and acting like a Gentile for them, he was adamant that we must not do wrong to others.

You may mean Romans, too. If Romans 3:7 is taken in context, it is really talking about the Jewish people who through their errors or falsehoods have killed the Messiah and through those "falsehoods" (Aramaic translation) exault Christ for the Gentiles benefit, then God is glorified. Paul is not advocating dishonesty!

A Bible code reveals when Judgment day is for the wicked. You will find it very interesting at http://abiblecode.tripod.com

Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua

Answer 6

The only thing I see that might even come close is when Paul was talking about his former life. He never lied "for the glory of God" because he would have been sinning and he was one of the most sincere men of that time who tried his best to live an honest and faithful life as he served Christ and taught others about salvation.

I think you may have misunderstood whatever verse you may have read. Paul did regret the way he lived before he was baptized, which the below scripture says, and I'm sure lying was involved in his life before he repented and changed his ways.

I Tim 1:12-16

12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, 13 although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
14 And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
16 However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.

Answer 7

Romans 3:7 -- But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
(The American Standard Version Bible)

Answer 8

7 "But," some might still argue, "how can God judge and condemn me as a sinner if my dishonesty highlights his truthfulness and brings him more glory?" (Romans 3:7, NLT)

I'd thought I'd just add the next verse for context:

8 If you follow that kind of thinking, however, you might as well say that the more we sin the better it is! Those who say such things deserve to be condemned, yet some slander me by saying this is what I preach!

Answer 9

This is how I understood the question and this is the verse I found that would be appropriate for it.

Acts 5:4...What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God."

Even if you have lied and think it was for you to glorify God. Your act was done to deceive and still UNGLORIFYING to God. Only God will come to judge us in the end. We should learn not to judge others, but learn to analize ourselves to look pleasing to God. We are made in His image and likeness though we are humans we are not perfect but try to be perfect.

Hope this helps. God bless you.

Answer 10

We all make mistakes in ignorance. What Paul was saying was that if he had ignorantly said something that was not true then God was not going to judge him on it. If John is not judged for his ignorance, then surely darlin when you speak of Christ with a mistake for Him, do you think that God will condemn you? I don't think so either.
Had John made an error in the teaching of God he would have corrected it immediately upon learning what he had done. So should you.
God's blessing to you and take care.

Answer 11

There is a "if" in Romans 3:7. Paul was merely making a supposition.