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
Rom 3:1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of
circumcision?
Rom 3:2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with
the oracles of God.
Rom 3:3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify
the faithfulness of God?
Rom 3:4 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."
Rom 3:5 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.)
Rom 3:6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Rom 3:7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I
still being condemned as a sinner?
Rom 3:8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people
slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
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
Rom 3:9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For
we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are
under sin,
Rom 3:10 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
Rom 3:11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
Rom 3:12 All have turned aside; together they have become
worthless; no one does good, not even one."
Rom 3:13 "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to
deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
Rom 3:14 "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
Rom 3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Rom 3:16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
Rom 3:17 and the way of peace they have not known."
Rom 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Rom 3:19 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.
Rom 3:20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in
his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
A 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
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from
the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
Rom 3:22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who
believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that
is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 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.
Rom 3:26 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.
Rom 3:27 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.
Rom 3:28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the
law.
Rom 3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also?
Yes, of Gentiles also,
Rom 3:30 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the
uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 3:31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the
contrary, we uphold the law.