collapse all  

Text -- Romans 3:4-31 (NET)

Strongs On/Off
Context
3:4 Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.” 3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.) 3:6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world? 3:7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner? 3:8 And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”?– as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)
The Condemnation of the World
3:9 What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin, 3:10 just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one, 3:11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God. 3:12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.” 3:13 “Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.” 3:14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” 3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood, 3:16 ruin and misery are in their paths, 3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.” 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 3:20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 3:21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed3:22 namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 3:24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 3:25 God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed. 3:26 This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness. 3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith! 3:28 For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law. 3:29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too! 3:30 Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 3:31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
Parallel   Cross Reference (TSK)   ITL  

Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Gentile a non-Jewish person
 · Greek the language used by the people of Greece
 · Jews the people descended from Israel


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Sin | Boasting | Romans, Epistle to the | GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE | Rome | Justification | Bigotry | Atonement | Salvation | Fall of man | Depravity of Mankind | Inclusiveness | Works | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 6 | Quotations and Allusions | Faith | Wicked | God | IMPUTATION | Crime | more
Table of Contents

Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes

expand all
Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rom 3:4 Or “prevail when you judge.” A quotation from Ps 51:4.

NET Notes: Rom 3:5 The same expression occurs in Gal 3:15, and similar phrases in Rom 6:19 and 1 Cor 9:8.

NET Notes: Rom 3:7 Grk “abounded unto.”

NET Notes: Rom 3:8 Grk “whose.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, this relative clause was rendered as a new sentence in the transl...

NET Notes: Rom 3:12 Verses 10-12 are a quotation from Ps 14:1-3.

NET Notes: Rom 3:13 A quotation from Pss 5:9; 140:3.

NET Notes: Rom 3:14 A quotation from Ps 10:7.

NET Notes: Rom 3:17 Rom 3:15-17 is a quotation from Isa 59:7-8.

NET Notes: Rom 3:18 A quotation from Ps 36:1.

NET Notes: Rom 3:19 Grk “in,” “in connection with.”

NET Notes: Rom 3:20 Grk “is.”

NET Notes: Rom 3:21 Grk “being witnessed by the law and the prophets,” a remark which is virtually parenthetical to Paul’s argument.

NET Notes: Rom 3:22 ExSyn 116, which notes that the grammar is not decisive, nevertheless suggests that “the faith/faithfulness of Christ is not a denial of faith i...

NET Notes: Rom 3:24 Or “declared righteous.” Grk “being justified,” as a continuation of the preceding clause. Because of the length and complexit...

NET Notes: Rom 3:25 Grk “because of the passing over of sins previously committed in the forbearance of God.”

NET Notes: Rom 3:26 Or “of the one who has faith in Jesus.” See note on “faithfulness of Jesus Christ” in v. 22 for the rationale behind the trans...

NET Notes: Rom 3:27 Grk “By what sort of law?”

NET Notes: Rom 3:28 See the note on the phrase “works of the law” in Rom 3:20.

NET Notes: Rom 3:30 Grk “but if indeed God is one.”

NET Notes: Rom 3:31 Grk “but” (Greek ἀλλά, alla).

Advanced Commentary (Dictionaries, Hymns, Arts, Sermon Illustration, Question and Answers, etc)


TIP #24: Use the Study Dictionary to learn and to research all aspects of 20,000+ terms/words. [ALL]
created in 0.14 seconds
powered by
bible.org - YLSA