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Rom 3:4 — νικήσεις (future indicative) / νικήσῃς (aorist subjunctive)

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μὴ γένοιτο Γινέσθω δὲ ὁ θεὸς ἀληθής πᾶς δὲ ἄνθρωπος ψεύστης καθὼς γέγραπται ὅπως ἂν δικαιωθῇς ἐν τοῖς λόγοις σου καὶ νικήσῃς ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε

BSB: “Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.””

TR · Scrivener 1894: F. H. A. Scrivener, The New Testament in the Original Greek according to the Text followed in the Authorised Version (1894); public domain. Accents: "STEP Bible" (https://www.STEPBible.org). Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Accents rebuilt by AISBT from STEP Bible TAGNT (data). · BSB (public domain)

Printed reading

καὶ νικήσεις ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε

kai nikēseis en tō krinesthai se

and you will prevail when you are judged

ℵ · A · D · E · 33 (Tisch. 17)

SBLGNTNA28 🔒︎WH

Alternative 1

καὶ νικήσῃς ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε

kai nikēsēs en tō krinesthai se

and (that) you may prevail when you are judged

B · G · K · L · Origen

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Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: καὶ νικήσεις ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε
Confidence: medium (team scale)
Significance: minor
Byz / TR: καὶ νικήσῃς ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε — open RP2018

Print νικήσεις with medium confidence; Tischendorf 8 prints it too. ℵ A D carry it, and conformity to the LXX and to normal grammar explains νικήσῃς. The sense is the same: God is vindicated when he is judged. The quotation itself is treated by the Hebrew Scholar (note.language.Rom.3.4.ps-51-4-ps-116-11).

Evidence

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Editions (checked 2026-10-29): SBLGNT, RP2018, TR (local files); WH/Treg/NA28 from the SBLGNT apparatus; NA28 by reference only. Sigla: as in STYLE_GUIDE §2.3. Minuscules are Gregory–Aland numbers, with Tischendorf's Pauline number once in parentheses ("Tisch."); * = first hand, superscript ᶜ (stored as c, e.g. Dc) = a later corrector (Tischendorf's notation); full key in src.tischendorf-8. Minuscules whose Gregory–Aland number is not verified are summarized, not listed. Tischendorf names mainly dissenting witnesses, so some majuscules on the other side are inferred from his silence.

SBLGNT, WH, NA28, and Tischendorf 8 (p. 374) read νικήσεις; Treg, RP2018, and TR read νικήσῃς. The siglum Ti in Tischendorf's apparatus for νικήσῃς refers to his earlier edition, not to the text of ed. 8.

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 374, leaf n381): νικήσεις: ℵ A D E, 33, five further minuscules and others, and one lectionary. νικήσῃς: B G K L and most others; Origen. Tischendorf adds that the LXX tradition also wavers, but that the Roman edition and ℵ A B with most LXX witnesses read νικήσῃς. Swete's LXX of Ps 50:6 (MT 51:6) prints νικήσῃς (vol. 2, p. 278, read on the scan).

Internal: after ὅπως ἄν the subjunctive is expected, and it is also the LXX form, so νικήσῃς is the easier reading. A future indicative after ὅπως is found in Koine and is the harder reading.

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Rom 3:4 — νικήσεις (future indicative) / νικήσῃς (aorist subjunctive)

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