Romans 3:1-4
MAN'S GUILT AND GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. The advantage of the Jew:... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN'S GUILT AND GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. The advantage of the Jew:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT ADVANTAGE, THEN, HATH THE JEW, OR WHAT PROFIT IS THERE OF CIRCUMCISION?... [ Continue Reading ]
MUCH EVERY WAY: CHIEFLY, BECAUSE THAT UNTO THEM WERE COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHAT IF SOME DID NOT BELIEVE? SHALL THEIR UNBELIEF MAKE THE FAITH OF GOD WITHOUT EFFECT?... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The apostle had last shown that the mere outward possession of the Law did not exempt the Jews from judgment and condemnation, since G... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, WHAT SHALL WE SAY? IS GOD UNRIGHTEOUS WHO TAKETH VENGEANCE? (I SPEAK AS A MAN.)... [ Continue Reading ]
God vindicated in every respect:... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD FORBID! FOR THEN HOW SHALL GOD JUDGE THE WORLD?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THE TRUTH OF GOD HATH MORE ABOUNDED THROUGH MY LIE UNTO HIS GLORY, WHY YET AM I ALSO JUDGED AS A SINNER?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOT RATHER, (AS WE BE SLANDEROUSLY REPORTED, AND AS SOME AFFIRM THAT WE SAY,) LET US DO EVIL, THAT GOOD MAY COME? WHOSE DAMNATION IS JUST. A new thought is here introduced by the apostle. For if the argument of verses 3 and 4 is correct, then the unbelief of the Jews actually serves as a foil to... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT THEN? ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY? NO, IN NO WISE; FOR WE HAVE BEFORE PROVED BOTH JEWS AND GENTILES THAT THEY ARE ALL UNDER SIN;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SCRIPTURAL PROOF FOR THE UNIVERSAL GUILT OF MANKIND. Scripture includes all men under sin:... [ Continue Reading ]
AS IT IS WRITTEN, THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT ONE;... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS NONE THAT UNDERSTANDETH, THERE IS NONE THAT SEEKETH AFTER GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE ALL GONE OUT OF THE WAY, THEY ARE TOGETHER BECOME UNPROFITABLE; THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO, NOT ONE... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHER; WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY HAVE USED DECEIT; THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS;... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR WAYS;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE WAY OF PEACE HAVE THEY NOT KNOWN;... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES. The apostle now, including himself with the Jews, brings out very clearly the general guilt of mankind, of Jews as well as of Gentiles: How now? What is the situation? Have we, as Jews, any preference or advantage over the Gentiles? Have we any better clai... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WE KNOW THAT WHAT THINGS SO EVER THE LAW SAITH IT SAITH TO THEM WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW, THAT EVERY MOUTH MAYBE STOPPED AND ALL THE WORLD MAY BECOME GUILTY BEFORE GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
A special word to the Jews:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW THERE SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT; FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. In the previous passage the apostle had spoken of men in general, both Jews and Gentiles, giving a full and detailed description of their natural condition. He now applies the t... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS;... [ Continue Reading ]
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. The righteousness of God revealed:... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE; FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE,... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH TO BE A PROPITIATION THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD TO DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS THAT ARE PAST, THROUGH THE FORBEARANCE OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
TO DECLARE, I SAY, AT THIS TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS: THAT HE MIGHT BE JUST, AND THE JUSTIFIER OF HIM WHICH BELIEVETH IN JESUS. "Having proved that justification, on the ground of legal obedience or personal merits, is for all men impossible, Paul proceeds to unfold the method of salvation presented in... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE IS BOASTING THEN? IT IS EXCLUDED. BY WHAT LAW? OF WORKS? NAY; BUT BY THE LAW OF FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The great conclusion of the apostle:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS HE THE GOD OF THE JEWS ONLY? IS HE NOT ALSO OF THE GENTILES? YES, OF THE GENTILES ALSO;... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEING IT IS ONE GOD, WHICH SHALL JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISION BY FAITH AND UNCIRCUMCISION THROUGH FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO WE, THEN, MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID! YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW. Here the apostle offers the conclusion of the glorious plan of salvation as he has just unfolded it. Since this is the case, where, then, is the act of glorying? What reason for indulging in boasting have men? All m... [ Continue Reading ]