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Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)
Verse Romans 3:5. JEW. _BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND THE_ _RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD_] May we not suppose that our unrighteousness may serve to commend and illustrate the mercy of God in keeping and...
BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS - If our sin. The particular sin which had been specified Romans 3:3 was “unbelief.” But the apostle here gives the objection a general form. This is to be regarded as an ob...
CHAPTER 3:1-20 _ 1. Objections and Their Answers. (Romans 3:1 .)_ 2. The Whole World Under Sin. (Romans 3:9 .) Romans 3:1 A number of objections are next raised and answered. “What advantage then h...
JEWISH PROTESTS SILENCED. Romans 3:1. What then, it is asked, is the advantage of being a Jew, etc.? Romans 3:2. Much, Paul replies, in every way: to begin with, they were entrusted with the oracles...
What, then, is the something plus which belongs to a Jew? Or what special advantage belongs to those who have been circumcised? Much in every way. In the first place, there is this advantage--that the...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _adikia._ App-128. COMMEND. establish, set forth. Greek. _sunistemi._ RIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _dikaiosune._ App-191. Compare Romans 1:17. WHAT SHALL WE SAY? Greek. _ti eroumen....
_unrighteousness … righteousness_ General terms, but implying the special forms of _unbelief_and _fidelity_. Man's mistrust is awfully _unjust to God;_God's fidelity to His promise is _just to Himself...
The Divine Judge will not connive at sin 3 8. _For what if some_, &c. Romans 3:3-8 form a passage of much difficulty in detail, though clear as a whole. The difficulty results partly from a doubt as t...
ΕἸ ΔῈ introduces, in order to remove, a difficulty suggested by this argument: if the confession of man’s sin has for its result the vindication of GOD’S righteousness, is not that a justification of...
17–3:20. The Gospel is needed by Jews, who have also failed through ignoring the one condition of righteousness. 1–20. A brief statement of the true nature of the Jew’s position, to be fully dealt wi...
ΑΔΙΚΊΑ (G93) неправедность, ΣΥΝΊΣΤΗΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G4921) сводить вместе, рекомендовать, доказывать, показывать нечто (BAGD). Это слово развилось из юридического термина "назнача...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD— St. Paul hereby intends God's faithfulness in keeping his promise. This verse is the language of an unbelieving _Jew,_ and therefore in _his_ mouth God's righteousness, or fi...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:1-9 a. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? Romans 3:2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God. Romans 3:3 Fo...
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND, [ sunisteesin (G4921...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 16 Much of the judgment which obtains among men is unjust and oppressive because of their inability to uncover the real truth: But in the divine judgment the _ hidden _ thing...
3:5 wrath? (c-17) 'Inflicts wrath' is hardly English, as wrath is a sentiment of the mind; and it is what reaches another which is inflicted, as punishment or pain. But 'executes' is not the sense, no...
TAKETH VENGEANCE] RV 'visiteth with wrath.' AS A MAN] RV 'after the manner of men,' i.e. speaking of the dealings of God as if they were the dealings of men: cp. Galatians 3:15....
THE NEW WAY OF ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD In Romans 1:2 St. Paul has shown that both Gentile and Jew have sinned wilfully, and are under God's condemnation. He now digresses to Jewish objections against the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 SOME *JEWISH PROTESTS AGAINST PAUL’S THOUGHTS 3:1-8 V1 Someone might ask whether the *Jews received any real advanta...
BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. — A new and profound question suggests itself to the mind of the Apostle, and his keen intellect will not let it go: “If the sin (here the unbelief) of man only tends to vi...
III. (1-8) Continuing the subject, but with a long digression in Romans 3:3 _et seq._ The Apostle asks, What is the real value of these apparent advantages? He is about to answer the question fully, a...
CHAPTER 8 JEWISH CLAIMS: NO HOPE IN HUMAN MERIT Romans 3:1 As the Apostle dictates, there rises before his mind a figure often seen by his eyes, the Rabbinic disputant. Keen, subtle, unscrupulous, a...
f. Here another attempt is made to invalidate the conclusion of chap. 2, that the Jew is to be judged “according to his works,” exactly like the Gentile. If the argument of Romans 3:3 f. is correct, t...
It might easily seem, at this point, as if the Apostle's argument had proved too much. He has shown that the mere possession of the law does not exempt the Jew from judgment, but that God requires its...
GOD FAITHFUL THOUGH MEN BE FAITHLESS Romans 3:1 The Jewish people had a great treasure entrusted to them for the benefit of the whole world. This position as stewards for mankind conferred upon them...
Paul here turned to a brief discussion of certain objections. First, "What advantage, then, hath the Jew?" He replied, "Much, every way." He then mentioned only one, which he spoke of as being "first...
(2) But if our (g) unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as (h) a man) (2) Another objection resulting from the form...
But if our injustice, &c. St. Paul here puts this objection, that if men's sins and iniquities, make the justice of God commendable, that is, make his justice more apparent and known; if the truth of...
“ _But if our unrighteousness establish the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous when He inflicts wrath? I speak as a man. Let it not be: for then how shall God judge the wo...
SIXTH PASSAGE (3:1-8). JEWISH PREROGATIVE DOES NOT IMPLY EXEMPTION FROM JUDGMENT. The order of thought in this piece, one of the most difficult, perhaps, in the Epistle, is as follows: 1. If the Jew...
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? I (speak as a man) (6) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? (7) For...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
5_But if our unrighteousness, etc. _Though this is a digression from the main subject, it was yet necessary for the Apostle to introduce it, lest he should seem to give to the ill-disposed an occasion...
Having established the great truth that God required real moral goodness, he considers the position of the Jews. Could they not plead special divine favour? Was there no advantage in Judaism? Surely t...
BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD,.... Hence it appears, that the unrighteousness of men commends the righteousness, or faithfulness of God; and yet all unrighteousness is si...
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? _Is_ God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) Ver. 5. _Is God unrighteous_] Such heart boilings there w...
_But_ It may be further objected; _if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God_ Be subservient to God's glory; or, if our infidelity be so far from making void the faithfulness of God, tha...
IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD; if our sins are made the occasion of showing the truth and justice of God, and are thus overruled for the display of his glory, is it not wrong...
WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE JEW? Since God requires subjection _of heart_ from the Jew, and at the same time honors a like subjection of heart in the Gentiles, the question arises, "What advantage then hat...
ROMANS 3:1-20 1. Was anyone (Jew or Gentile) justified on their own merit? a. Were Jews or Gentiles saved by their own power? i. Both are under sin ii. How bad was their sin? 1. None righteous 2...
BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMENDETH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, WHAT SHALL WE SAY? IS GOD UNRIGHTEOUS WHO VISITETH WITH WRATH? (I SPEAK AFTER THE MANNER OF MEN.) 'Commendeth' -'demonstrates' (NASV);...
1-8 The law could not save in or from sins, yet it gave the Jews advantages for obtaining salvation. Their stated ordinances, education in the knowledge of the true God and his service, and many favo...
BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD; an anticipation of another objection, which might be lnade upon the preceding words: that if the faithfulness of God, in keeping his promis...
But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) [I am not expressing my own views, but...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I "But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who taketh vengeance? God forbid."[152]...
Romans 3:5 But G1161 if G1487 our G2257 unrighteousness G93 demonstrates G4921 (G5719) righteousness G1343 God G2316 what...
‘But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) OK, says the theoretical questioner, if th...
IF THIS BE SO WHAT ADVANTAGE IS THERE IN BEING A JEW? (3:1-8). In a series of questions Paul now takes up the points just made, the claimed advantage of being a Jew (Romans 2:17) and the claimed advan...
3. _The Scriptural Proof of the Guilt of the Jews._ This section forms the conclusion of the first part: ‘Every one needs this power unto salvation.' While in general it may be regarded as presenting...
_The Justification by Faith, and the Curse of the Law_. Paul addresses himself again directly to the Galatians with an expression of his indignant surprise at the folly of their relapse into Judaism,...
Romans 3:5. BUT, introducing the common objection: ‘If God thus prevails, do we not, by our sin, help on His glory.' The answer to this objection follows (Romans 3:5-8). Paul admits the premise but de...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY? (τ ερουμεν?). Rhetorical question, common with Paul as he surveys the argument.COMMENDETH (συνιστησιν). This common verb συνιστημ, to send together, occurs in the N.T. in two se...
RIGHTEOUSNESS (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:21). _...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ It was a great thing to be...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ The Jews of old had a great...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way; chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ If it be so that, after all...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?_ If, after all, both Jew and Gentiles were under sin, what advantage had the Jew by the covenant under which he...
CONTENTS: The common guilt of both Jew and Gentile. Justification by faith, not by the law. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The sum of all sin is coming short of the glory of God for which we we...
The first part of this chapter, as far as the twentieth verse, belongs to the two preseding Chapter s, and confirms, by the words of David, the deplorable state of fallen man. Romans 3:1. _What advant...
BUT WHAT IF OUR DOING WRONG? Israel is under judgment for rejecting Christ. The Jewish argument is: "If our sin in crucifying Christ blessed the whole world, and if our unbelief makes the faithfulness...
_But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?_ MAN’S SIN AND GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS 1. Our unrighteousness may possibly commend the righteousness of God. 2. This res...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:5 Some of Paul’s Jewish opponents claimed that he taught a doctrine of “cheap grace,” that is, that God receives more glory when Christians DO EVIL and then are forgiven. Paul...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:1. WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW?—Pre-eminence. Passage brings out the idea of surplus (Wordsworth). Romans 3:3.—πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ—the faith of God—may perhaps be best exp...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 3:1 (2) _Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met. _In_ _this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle meets certain objections that might be ma...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Romans 3. Paul has just told the Jews that having the law does not justify a person. It is the keeping of the law that justifies one. That uncircumcision really has...
1 Corinthians 9:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Deuteronomy 32:39; Galatians 3:15;...
Commend [σ υ ν ι σ τ η σ ι ν]. Only twice outside of Paul's writings, Luke 9:32; 2 Peter 3:5, both in the physical sense. Lit., to place together. Hence of setting one person with another by way of in...
But, it may be farther objected, if our unrighteousness be subservient to God's glory, is it not unjust in him to punish us for it? I speak as a man — As human weakness would be apt to speak....
A third objection here followeth, namely, "That if the unrighteousness of men, that is, both of Jews and Gentiles, tends so visibly to COMMEND, that is, to illustrate and recommend the righteousness o...