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Romans 3: 1-8
1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
4 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be
justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That
God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being
condemned as a sinner?
8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously
charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
A Quick Question - 3: 1-8
Then what advantage has the Jew?
Or what is the value of circumcision?
If all of this
is true, where
does that
leave us?
A Quick Question (3:1-8)
Summary: If the Jews are condemned together
with the Gentiles, then what is the advantage of
being a Jew?
Characters: Curioso and his fellow Pharisees
wonder where their significance could be if they
are just as guilty and lost as the “gentile sinners”
whom they have been judging.
A Quick Question - 3: 1-8
Then what advantage has the Jew?
Or what is the value of circumcision?
A Quick Question - 3: 1-8
Then what advantage has the Jew?
Or what is the value of circumcision?
Romans 3: 9-20
9 Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews
and Greeks, are under sin,
10 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even
one."
13 "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is
under their lips."
14 "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and the way of peace they have not known."
18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19 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 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since
through the law comes knowledge of sin.
A Collective Crisis - 3: 9-20
None is righteous, ... no one seeks
for God. All have turned aside... no
one does good, not even one.”
A Collective Crisis (3:9-20)
Summary: The law has revealed that all have sinned,
the religious and the irreligious, so that “every mouth
may be stopped and the whole world be held
accountable before God.”
Characters: Condemnus, a member of the Roman
senate, points down to indicate guilt and impending
judgment over all whose hearts have turned from God to
self, regardless of their race, nationality or religion.
From top to bottom: Savvas the Greek, Gamaliel the
Pharisee, Abimbola the African and Billy the cowboy.
A Collective Crisis - 3: 9-20
None is righteous, ... no one seeks
for God. All have turned aside... no
one does good, not even one.”
A Collective Crisis - 3: 9-20
None is righteous, ... no one seeks
for God. All have turned aside... no
one does good, not even one.
Romans 3: 21-31
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the
Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no
distinction:
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation 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 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the
justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of
works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
30 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through
faith.
31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary,
we uphold the law.
A Radical Righteousness - 3: 21-31
But now the righteousness of God
has been manifested ... through faith
in Jesus Christ for all who believe
It’s done!
A Radical Righteousness
(3:21-31)
Summary: The gracious gift of righteousness that
comes through faith in Jesus Christ has now been
revealed.
Characters: Evangeles, a preacher of righteousness,
holds up a charge sheet that has been wiped clean and
on which the words “paid in full” have now been written.
A Radical Righteousness - 3: 21-31
But now the righteousness of God
has been manifested ... through faith
in Jesus Christ for all who believe
A Radical Righteousness - 3: 21-31
But now the righteousness of God
has been manifested ... through faith
in Jesus Christ for all who believe.
