<p>3:4&nbsp;<i>God forbid. Yes, let God be found true</i>- Paul is continually using legal language. Let God be found in a legal sense, through legal, forensic analysis true Gk. and faithful by man&rsquo;s judgment of God. The amazing statement in 3:3- that God remains faithful even when we are not- is hard to believe. Paul understands our internal doubts as to the extent of God&rsquo;s grace as man effectively putting God in the dock and trying the veracity of His claims. In one of the finest paradoxes of all, Paul will go on in Romans to use this very legal language to describe how God the judge as it were turns it all around, puts man, us sinners, in the dock, and justifies us the humanly unjustifiable.&nbsp;</p><p><i>But every man a liar</i>- In that our false accusations against the real extent of God&rsquo;s saving grace are exposed as untrue and lies.</p><p><i>As it is written: You must be justified in Your words</i>- God comes through the trial of His grace by doubting man as justified, declared right. And yet this very term is what Paul uses to describe how God declares us righteous in&nbsp;<i>His</i>&nbsp;judgment of us. We judge God, but in the end, God judges us.</p><p><i>And must prevail when You come before judgment&nbsp;</i>Gk.- Prevail or &ldquo;overcome&rdquo; is the legal word for winning a case in court. It is our doubts as to the extent of God&rsquo;s grace, that He abides faithful even throughout our unfaithfulness, which is effectively our bringing God to court, to judgment. Paul is here quoting Ps. 51:4, which were David&rsquo;s words of reflection upon his sin unto death, and God&rsquo;s forgiveness of him. He reflected that he had sinned&nbsp;<i>so that</i>&nbsp;God might be justified when He is brought to judgment by us. Again we are up against an amazing grace. God uses our sin, our doubt of His forgiveness, in order to declare Himself yet more righteous when He is put in the dock to answer against our false charges: &lsquo;Is He really able to forgive me&nbsp;<i>that</i>? Will He really not hold&nbsp;<i>this</i>&nbsp;eternally against me? Will I&nbsp;<i>really</i>&nbsp;be saved, sinner that I am? Can God really accept&nbsp;<i>me</i>&nbsp;after what I have done, all I have failed to do as I should, all I have not been...?&rsquo;. These are the kinds of questions with which we accuse God. Effectively the case against God&rsquo;s grace is that He will&nbsp;<i>not</i>&nbsp;actually forgive, justify and save weak sinners. And He gloriously wins the case against us. And He even uses our sin, as He used David&rsquo;s (who becomes a figure of us all), in order to prove this to us and to the world. And so, in a matchless logical&nbsp;<i>tour de force</i>, Paul triumphs in 3:5: &ldquo;Our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God&rdquo;, just as David sinned&nbsp;<i>so that</i>&nbsp;God&rsquo;s righteousness would be declared.</p>