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Romans 3
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What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? |
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Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles
of God. |
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For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of
God without effect? |
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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. |
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we
say? Is God unrighteous who taketh
vengeance? (I speak as
a man) |
"I speak as a man."
Paul asks the very good question: "Is there
unrighteousness who taketh vengeance [upon innocent people]?" The obvious
answer to this is, yes. Paul then quickly adds, "I speak as a man."
What else could he speak as? A donkey or a god, perhaps?
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God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto
his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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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.
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"Whose damnation is just."
Those who criticize Paul are damned by God.
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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; |
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As it is written, There
is none righteous, no, not one: |
 (3:10, 12, 23)
"There is none righteous, no, not one."
Paul claims that there never has been a righteous or good person. But
according to Gen.6:9, 7:1; Job 1:1, 2:3, and Lk.1:5-6, Noah, Job, Zechariah, and Elizabeth were
all good and righteous people.
Has there ever been a righteous person?
(3:12)
"There is none that doeth good, no, not one."
Does anyone ever do anything good?
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| 3:11
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
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They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth
good, no, not one.
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| 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used
deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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Their feet are swift to shed blood: |
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Destruction and misery are in their ways: |
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And the way of peace have they not known: |
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There is no fear of God before their eyes. |
(3:10-18)
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Should we fear God?
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| 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who
are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
become guilty before God.
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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. |
(3:20, 28)
"By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified."
Is Salvation by faith alone?
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| 3:21
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; |
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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: |
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For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God; |
"All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."
Do Christians sin?
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| 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus:
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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; |
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To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. |
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Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by
the law of faith. |
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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of
the law. |
"A man is justified by faith."
What must you do to be saved?
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| 3:29
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of
the Gentiles also: |
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Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and
uncircumcision through faith. |
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Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish
the law.
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