it is impossible that God should prove false RSV


it is impossible that God should prove false

Hebrews 6:9-20 Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation.

For God is not so unjust as to over-look your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end,

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had not one greater by whom the swear, he swore by himself,

saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."

And thus Abraham having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath

so that through two unchangeable things, it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain,

where Jesus has gone as forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Mel-chiz' e-dek.

Romans 3:1-18 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God.

What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

By no means! Let God be true though every men be false, as it is written, "That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and prevail when thou art judged."

But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

And why not do evil that good may come?-- as some people slanderously charge us with saying, Their condemnation is just.

What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin,

as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;

no one understands, no one seeks for God.

All have turned aside, together they have have gone wrong: no one does does good, not even one."

"Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."

"Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."

Their feet are swift to shed blood,

in their paths are ruin and misery,

and the way of peace they do not know."

"There is no fear of God before their eyes."