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Romans 3

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Romans 3 . 1

1 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:1

Romans 3 . 2

2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:2

Romans 3 . 3

3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:3

Romans 3 . 4

4 Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”IPPsalm 116:11 Psalm 51:4CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:4

Romans 3 . 5

5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:5

Romans 3 . 6

6 Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:6

Romans 3 . 7

7 However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:7

Romans 3 . 8

8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:8

Romans 3 . 9

9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:9

Romans 3 . 10

10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.IPPsalm 14:1CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:10TTTrespass-Offering (Restitution and Restoration)

Romans 3 . 11

11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.IPPsalm 14:1CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:11TTTrespass-Offering (Restitution and Restoration)

Romans 3 . 12

12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”IPPsalm 14:1CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:12TTTrespass-Offering (Restitution and Restoration)

Romans 3 . 13

13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”IPPsalm 14:1 Psalm 5:9 Psalm 140:3CRomans 03:1-18TOSKRomans 3:13TTTrespass-Offering (Restitution and Restoration)

Romans 3 . 19

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 held accountable to God.CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:19

Romans 3 . 20

20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.IPPsalm 143:2CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:20TTRahab and Jericho (Faith Saves Gentiles) Trespass-Offering (Restitution and Restoration)

Romans 3 . 21

21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.IPGenesis 15:6CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:21TTAbraham (Father of Faith) Rahab and Jericho (Faith Saves Gentiles)LTLaw and Righteousness

Romans 3 . 22

22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,IPGenesis 15:6CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:22TTAbraham (Father of Faith) Rahab and Jericho (Faith Saves Gentiles)

Romans 3 . 23

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:23

Romans 3 . 24

24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:24

Romans 3 . 25

25 God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.IPExodus 34:6-7 Leviticus 17:11CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:25TTArk of the Covenant (God's Throne of Mercy) Sin Offering (Christ Bearing Our Sins) Trespass-Offering (Restitution and Restoration)LTJustice and Mercy Sacrifice and Atonement

Romans 3 . 26

26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:26

Romans 3 . 27

27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:27TTDay of Midian (Gospel Victory Pattern)

Romans 3 . 28

28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:28TTDay of Midian (Gospel Victory Pattern)

Romans 3 . 29

29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:29

Romans 3 . 30

30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.IPDeuteronomy 6:4CRomans 03:19-31TOSKRomans 3:30