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Rom. 3:4 (fn. 2) - 3:19 (fn. 1)

September 21, 2021

Rom. 3:4 Absolutely not! But let God be true and every man a liar, as it is written, ``That You may be declared righteous in Your words and may overcome when You are judged.''

Footnote 2:
4,2) declared - God must first convince us of His righteousness before we can repent and believe into Him. Thus, He is declared righteous by us before we are declared righteous by Him.

Rom. 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous? I speak according to man.

Rom. 3:6 Absolutely not! Otherwise how shall God judge the world?

Rom. 3:7 But if the truthfulness of God has abounded in my lie unto His glory, why still am I also being judged as a sinner?

Footnote 1:
7,1) truthfulness - In Greek the same word as for truth (reality). The word here and in 15:8 denotes genuineness, sincerity, honesty, faithfulness, and trustworthiness as one of God’s virtues.

Rom. 3:8 And why not say (as we are slanderously charged and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil that good may come? whose judgment is just.

Footnote 1:
8,1) judgment - The eternal judgment.

Rom. 3:9 What then? Are we better? Not at all! For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin,

Rom. 3:10 Even as it is written, ``There is none righteous, not even one;

Rom. 3:11 There is none who understands, there is none who seeks out God.

Rom. 3:12 All have turned aside; together they have become useless; there is none who does good; there is not so much as one.

Footnote 1:
12,1) good - Or, kindness.

Rom. 3:13 Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

Rom. 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Rom. 3:15 Swift are their feet to shed blood,

Rom. 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways,

Rom. 3:17 And the way of peace they have not known.

Footnote 1:
17,1) way - When we were sinners, we did not know the way of peace. Now, however, we have peace toward God (5:1); that is, we are at peace with God.

Rom. 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.''

Rom. 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may fall under the judgment of God.

Footnote 1:
19,1) that - God’s purpose in giving the law was to expose man, to subdue man, and to guard or keep God’s chosen ones for Christ that they may be led to Christ.

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