Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."
NIV
By no means! Let God be found true though every human being is false and a liar, as it is written, That You may be justified and shown to be upright in what You say, and prevail when You are judged [by sinful men]. [Ps. 51:4.]AMP
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.
KJV
So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
NIV
So that the Law served [to us Jews] as our trainer [our guardian, our guide to Christ, to lead us] until Christ [came], that we might be justified (declared righteous, put in right standing with God) by and through faith.
AMP
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
KJV
Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.
NIV
And that through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as his Savior and devotes himself to Him] is absolved (cleared and freed) from every charge from which he could not be justified and freed by the Law of Moses and given right standing with God.
AMP
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
KJV
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
NIV
And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God.
AMP
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
KJV
And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
NIV
And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being].
AMP
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
KJV
Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because "the righteous will live by faith."
NIV
Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live. [Hab. 2:4.]AMP
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
KJV
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
NIV
If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God's gracious favor and unmerited blessing).
AMP
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
KJV
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
NIV
Therefore the wicked [those disobedient and living without God] shall not stand [justified] in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God].
AMP
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
KJV
(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus' words, acknowledged that God's way was right, because they had been baptized by John.
NIV
And all the people who heard Him, even the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God [in calling them to repentance and in pronouncing future wrath on the impenitent], being baptized with the baptism of John.
AMP
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
KJV
