Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT
Romans 3:18
Before
(απεναντ). Late double compound (απο, εν, αντ) adverbial preposition in LXX and Polybius, papyri and inscriptions. With genitive as here.
Before
(απεναντ). Late double compound (απο, εν, αντ) adverbial preposition in LXX and Polybius, papyri and inscriptions. With genitive as here.
Verse 18. _THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES._] This completes their bad character; they are downright atheists, at least practically such. They fear not God's judgments, although his eye is...
THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD - Psalms 36:1. The word “fear” here denotes “reverence, awe, veneration.” There is no such regard or reverence for the character, authority, and honor of God as to restrain the...
CHAPTER 3:1-20 _ 1. Objections and Their Answers. (Romans 3:1 .)_ 2. The Whole World Under Sin. (Romans 3:9 .) Romans 3:1 A number of objections are next raised and answered. “What advantage then h...
sums up THE IMPEACHMENT OF MANKIND. Romans 3:9. Paul has beaten down Jewish counter-pleas; he and his fellow-believers (we) might be supposed to have some apology in reserve: What then? do we make an...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
What then? Are we Jews out ahead? By no means. For we have already charged all Jews and Greeks with being under the power of sin, as it stands written: "There is none righteous, no not one. There is n...
This is quoted from Psalms 36:1. BEFORE. Greek. _apenanti._ See Acts 3:16....
17–3:20. The Gospel is needed by Jews, who have also failed through ignoring the one condition of righteousness. 1–20. A brief statement of the true nature of the Jew’s position, to be fully dealt wi...
This string of quotations is adduced to justify from Scripture the assertion of Romans 3:9. On the Rabbinic practice of stringing quotations cf. S. H., who instance also Romans 9:25 f., 2 Corinthians...
ΆΠΈΝΑΝΤΙ (G561) перед, в присутствии....
DISCOURSE: 1830 THE EXTENT OF MAN’S DEPRAVITY Romans 3:10. It is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gon...
AS IT IS WRITTEN— In these verses and quotations from Scripture, the Apostle is evidently giving a description of the general character and morals of the infidel Jews in his own time, when he wrote th...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:9 b - Romans 3:20. No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; Romans 3:10 as it is written, There is hone righteous, no, no...
There is no fear of God before their eyes. THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES () - q.d., 'Did the eyes but "see Him who is invisible" (), a reverential awe of Him with whom we have to do wou...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 16 Much of the judgment which obtains among men is unjust and oppressive because of their inability to uncover the real truth: But in the divine judgment the _ hidden _ thing...
3:18 eyes. (k-9) Psalms 36:1 ....
THE NEW WAY OF ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD In Romans 1:2 St. Paul has shown that both Gentile and Jew have sinned wilfully, and are under God's condemnation. He now digresses to Jewish objections against the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 SOME *JEWISH PROTESTS AGAINST PAUL’S THOUGHTS 3:1-8 V1 Someone might ask whether the *Jews received any real advanta...
The fear of God, which is properly a subjective feeling, is here projected, as it were, and regarded as an external rule of life....
(9-20) Once more the argument returns to the main track, and at last the Apostle asserts distinctly and categorically what he had already proved indirectly, that the Jew is every whit as bad as the Ge...
CHAPTER 8 JEWISH CLAIMS: NO HOPE IN HUMAN MERIT Romans 3:1 As the Apostle dictates, there rises before his mind a figure often seen by his eyes, the Rabbinic disputant. Keen, subtle, unscrupulous, a...
In these verses the Apostle completes his proof of the universality of sin, and of the liability of all men, without exception, to judgment. The τί οὖν of Romans 3:9 brings back the argument from the...
Romans 3:18; Psalms 35:2, LXX, with αὐτῶν for αὐτοῦ. This verse at once sums up and explains the universal corruption of mankind....
ALL JUSTLY UNDER JUDGMENT Romans 3:9 A number of quotations are advanced-mostly from the Septuagint or Greek version of the Old Testament-establishing the hopeless evil of man's condition. These appl...
Paul here turned to a brief discussion of certain objections. First, "What advantage, then, hath the Jew?" He replied, "Much, every way." He then mentioned only one, which he spoke of as being "first...
SEVENTH PASSAGE (3:9-20). SCRIPTURE PROCLAIMS THE FACT OF UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION. After a general declaration, repeating the already demonstrated fact of the condemnation of Jews and Greeks (Romans 3:...
_ VV._ 15-18. “ _Their feet are swift to shed blood: oppression and misery are in their ways: the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes._ ” Of these four proposit...
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? I (speak as a man) (6) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? (7) For...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
18.In the last clause (103) he repeats again, in other words, what we have noticed at the beginning — that every wickedness flows from a disregard of God: for as the principal part of wisdom is the fe...
Having established the great truth that God required real moral goodness, he considers the position of the Jews. Could they not plead special divine favour? Was there no advantage in Judaism? Surely t...
THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES. The place referred to is Psalms 36:1, by the "fear of God", is not meant a fear of God's wrath, of hell and damnation; nor a fearful distrust of his presence...
There is no fear of God before their eyes. Ver. 18. _There is no fear of God_] This is set last, as the source of all the former evils....
Rom. 3:10-18. "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together becom...
_What then_ Well then, (may a Jew further urge,) since you grant that the Jews have the advantage of the Gentiles in point of privileges, having the oracles of God, the promises which he will never fa...
NO FEAR OF GOD; none which leads them to love and obey him, or keeps them from breaking his laws. Psalms 36:1. This is the account given of Jews who were blessed with the Scriptures and all the means...
THE SCRIPTURAL PROOF FOR THE UNIVERSAL GUILT OF MANKIND. Scripture includes all men under sin:...
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...
WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE JEW? Since God requires subjection _of heart_ from the Jew, and at the same time honors a like subjection of heart in the Gentiles, the question arises, "What advantage then hat...
ROMANS 3:1-20 1. Was anyone (Jew or Gentile) justified on their own merit? a. Were Jews or Gentiles saved by their own power? i. Both are under sin ii. How bad was their sin? 1. None righteous 2...
ROMANS 3:18. Psalms 36:1 _ 'All their functions are contaminated with sin. Their throats, tongues, eyes, feet, lips and hands are declared as the instruments of sin...the whole Jewish nation is guilt...
9-18 Here again is shown that all mankind are under the guilt of sin, as a burden; and under the government and dominion of sin, as enslaved to it, to work wickedness. This is made plain by several p...
This last assertion gives us one true cause of all the aforesaid evils, taken out of PSALMS 36:1: SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 36:1"....
There is no fear of God before their eyes. [Psalms 36:1. The above quotations are placed in logical order. "The arrangement is such," says Meyer, "that testimony is adduced: first, for the state of si...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "There is no fear of God before their eyes."[329]...
Romans 3:18 is G2076 (G5748) no G3756 fear G5401 God G2316 before G561 their G846 eyes G3788...
‘As it is written, There is none righteous, No, not one, There is none who understands, There is none who seeks after God, They have all turned aside, They are together become unprofitable, The...
BOTH JEW AND GENTILE ARE IN THE SAME POSITION. ALL ARE UNDER SIN (3:9-20). Paul does not want any of his readers to think therefore that this puts them in a better position than the Jews, for as he h...
Romans 3:18. THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD, etc. (From Psalms 36:1.) ‘The transgression of the wicked is affirming within my heart: “Fear of God is not before his eyes.”‘ The quotation from the LXX. is exac...
3. _The Scriptural Proof of the Guilt of the Jews._ This section forms the conclusion of the first part: ‘Every one needs this power unto salvation.' While in general it may be regarded as presenting...
Romans 3:10-18. AS IT IS WRITTEN. This formula here introduces a number of Old Testament quotations, describing the moral corruption of the times of David and the prophets. Human nature being essentia...
Romans 3:9 Every Mouth Stopped. I. Perhaps some readers are aware of a feeling of disappointment at reaching this result. Not that they doubt the native depravity of mankind, or the certainty that al...
Romans 3:9. 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; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: T...
Romans 3:9. _What then? are we better than they?_ The first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans contains so horrible an account of the manners of the Gentiles, the heathen of Paul's day, that it is...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ It was a great thing to be...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ The Jews of old had a great...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way; chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ If it be so that, after all...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?_ If, after all, both Jew and Gentiles were under sin, what advantage had the Jew by the covenant under which he...
CONTENTS: The common guilt of both Jew and Gentile. Justification by faith, not by the law. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The sum of all sin is coming short of the glory of God for which we we...
The first part of this chapter, as far as the twentieth verse, belongs to the two preseding Chapter s, and confirms, by the words of David, the deplorable state of fallen man. Romans 3:1. _What advant...
These verses are a general statement of the condition of mankind. Wherever man goes, he leaves a trail of destruction and misery behind him. Human wickedness continually inflicts injury on others. Eve...
_What then?_ Are we better than they? No … they are all under sin. NOMINAL CHRISTIANS COMPARED WITH HEATHEN 1. Have much advantage every way (Romans 3:2). 2. Are no better. 3. Are all alike under...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:18 The root cause of sin is failure to FEAR and honor God (Psalms 36:1)....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:9.—Do we bring pleas forward on behalf of ourselves—_i.e._, in fear of a sentence of condemnation against ourselves? (Stuart.) Romans 3:10.—The apostle having mentioned that...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 3:1 (2) _Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met. _In_ _this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle meets certain objections that might be ma...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Romans 3. Paul has just told the Jews that having the law does not justify a person. It is the keeping of the law that justifies one. That uncircumcision really has...
Genesis 20:11; Luke 23:40; Proverbs 16:6; Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 8
SIN AND SALVATION Romans 3:9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Word of God never belittles sin. Sin, to God, is heinous. It is black, without one ray of white. Sin to God is exceeding sinful. There is nothing...
The fear of God is not before their eyes — Much less is the love of God in their heart. Psalms 36:1....