Romans 3
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1Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2#Ps 147.19; Rom 9.4. Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God. 3What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? 4#Ps 51.4. By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written,
“That thou mayest be justified in thy words,
and prevail when thou art judged.”
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Rom 5.9; 6.19; 1 Cor 9.8; Gal 3.15. 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.) 6By no means! For then how could God judge the world? 7But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8#Rom 6.1,15. And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
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Rom 1.18-32; 2.1-29; 11.32; 3.23. What then? Are we Jews any better off?#3.9 Or at any disadvantage? No, not at all; for I#3.9 Greek we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin, 10#Ps 14.1-3; 53.1-3. as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
11no one understands, no one seeks for God.
12All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong;
no one does good, not even one.”
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Ps 5.9; 140.3. “Their throat is an open grave,
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
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Ps 10.7. “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
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Is 59.7-8. “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16in their paths are ruin and misery,
17and the way of peace they do not know.”
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Ps 36.1. “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
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Rom 2.12. Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20#Ps 143.2; Acts 13.39; Gal 2.16; 3.11; Rom 7.7. For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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Rom 1.17; Phil 3.9; 2 Pet 1.1. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, 22#Rom 4.5; 9.30; 10.12; Gal 2.16. the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction; 23#Rom 3.9. since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24#Rom 4.16; 5.9; Eph 2.8; Tit 3.7; Eph 1.7; Col 1.14; Heb 9.15. they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins; 26#1 Jn 2.2; Col 1.20. it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.
27Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith. 28#Acts 13.39; Rom 5.1; Eph 2.9. For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law. 29#Rom 9.24; Acts 10.34-35. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30#Rom 4.11-12,16. since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith. 31#Rom 8.4; Mt 5.17. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
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Romans 3
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1WHAT advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
2Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.
3For what if some of them have not believed? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid.
4But God is true; and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
5But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?
6(I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?
7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?
8And not rather (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.
9What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
10As it is written: There is not any man just.
11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15Their feet swift to shed blood:
16Destruction and misery in their ways:
17And the way of peace they have not known:
18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19Now we know, that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be made subject to God.
20Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
22Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction:
23For all have sinned, and do need the glory of God.
24Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,
25Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,
26Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time; that he himself may be just, and the justifier of him, who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.
27Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
29Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.
30For it is one God, that justifieth circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.
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