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Romans 3:9
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;
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;
Verse Romans 3:9. JEW. _WHAT THEN?_] After all, have not we Jews a better claim to the privileges of the kingdom of God than the _Gentiles_ have? APOSTLE. _NO, IN NO WISE_] For I have already proved...
WHAT THEN? - This is another remark supposed to be made by a Jewish objector. “What follows? or are we to infer that we are better than others? ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY? - Are we Jews better than the G...
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...
sums up THE IMPEACHMENT OF MANKIND. Romans 3:9. Paul has beaten down Jewish counter-pleas; he and his fellow-believers (we) might be supposed to have some apology in reserve: What then? do we make an...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
What then? Are we Jews out ahead? By no means. For we have already charged all Jews and Greeks with being under the power of sin, as it stands written: "There is none righteous, no not one. There is n...
ARE... THEY?. have we any advantage? or, have we any excuse to put forward? Gr _. proecho._ Only here; may be mid, or pass, voice. NO, IN NO WISE. Not (Greek. _ou._ App-105) at all (Greek. _pantos)_....
Man universally and fatally guilty: no hope in human merit. This with special reference to Jewish prejudice 9. _What then? are we better?_ i.e., probably, "we Jews." The effect of the last passage ha...
ΤΊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν; well then, this being so, what follows? Cf. John 1:21; _infra_, Romans 6:15; Romans 11:7 only. Cf. above on μὴ γένοιτο, τί οὗν ἐροῦμεν; ΠΡΟΕΧΌΜΕΘΑ; ‘are we surpassed? are we at a disadvantag...
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...
ΠΡΟΕΧΌΜΕΘΑPRAES. _ind. med._/pass. от ΠΡΟΈΧΩ (G4284) превосходить, быть первым; _med._ иметь преимущество, иметь какую-л. защиту; _pass._ быть превзойденным, находиться в менее выгодном положении (BAG...
WHAT THEN?—ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY?— The Apostle having given the Jew leave to put in his objections, in reference to what would disgust him most,—the rejection of the Jews; and having given such answ...
_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...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:9 b - Romans 3:20. No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; Romans 3:10 as it is written, There is hone righteous, no, no...
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; WHAT THEN? ARE WE BETTER [THAN THEY?] - `Have we the pre-eminence...
_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...
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...
PROVED] RV 'laid to the charge.' 10-18. From Psalms 5:9; Psalms 10:7; Psalms 14:1.; Psalms 36:1;...
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...
ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY? — “Can we claim a preference?” The form of the Greek verb is peculiar. It seems upon the whole best to take it as middle for active, which would be apparently unexampled, but...
(9-20) Once more the argument returns to the main track, and at last the Apostle asserts distinctly and categorically what he had already proved indirectly, that the Jew is every whit as bad as the Ge...
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...
Τί οὖν; What then? _i.e._, how, then, are we to understand the situation? It is necessary to take these words by themselves, and make προεχόμεθα a separate question: the answer to τί could not be οὐ,...
In these verses the Apostle completes his proof of the universality of sin, and of the liability of all men, without exception, to judgment. The τί οὖν of Romans 3:9 brings back the argument from the...
ALL JUSTLY UNDER JUDGMENT Romans 3:9 A number of quotations are advanced-mostly from the Septuagint or Greek version of the Old Testament-establishing the hopeless evil of man's condition. These appl...
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...
(4) What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all (k) under sin; (4) Another answer to the first objection: that the Jews,...
_What then do we Jews excel the Gentiles? He again turns his discourse against the Jews, by shewing that they have been sinners, as well as the Gentiles, notwithstanding the particular favours God had...
SEVENTH PASSAGE (3:9-20). SCRIPTURE PROCLAIMS THE FACT OF UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION. After a general declaration, repeating the already demonstrated fact of the condemnation of Jews and Greeks (Romans 3:...
“ _What then? are we sheltered?Certainly not:for we have before proved all men, both Jews and Greeks, that they are under sin._ ” If the words τί οὖν, _what then_, be taken as an independent question,...
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...
9._What then? _He returns from his digression to his subject. For lest the Jews should object that they were deprived of their right, as he had mentioned those distinctions of honor, for which they th...
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...
WHAT THEN? ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY?.... The apostle returns to what he was treating of in the beginning of the chapter, and suggests, that though the Jew has the advantage of the Gentile, with respect...
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; Ver. 9. _That they are all under sin_] Whole evil is in man, and...
_What then_ Well then, (may a Jew further urge,) since you grant that the Jews have the advantage of the Gentiles in point of privileges, having the oracles of God, the promises which he will never fa...
WE; Jews. THEY; Gentiles. BETTER; in condition as to the way of justification. Can Jews be justified in any other way than Gentiles? IN NO WISE; certainly not; because both are sinners, and if saved...
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...
PROVED: _ Gr._ charged...
WHAT THEN? ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY? NO, IN NO WISE: FOR WE BEFORE LAID TO THE CHARGE BOTH OF JEWS AND GREEKS, THAT THEY ARE ALL UNDER SIN; 'What then' -Paul returns to the thought presented in Roman...
9-18 Here again is shown that all mankind are under the guilt of sin, as a burden; and under the government and dominion of sin, as enslaved to it, to work wickedness. This is made plain by several p...
WHAT THEN? ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY? the apostle here returns to the argument that he had been handling in the beginning of the chapter. He brings in the Jews propounding a question, Seeing it was conf...
What then? Are we [Jews]_ better than they?_ [The Gentiles.] _No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin_ [Having met the effort of the Jew t...
Romans 3:9 What G5101 then G3767 better G4284 (G5736) Not G3756 all G3843 For G1063 charged G4256 ...
‘What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way, for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin,' Those who had been listening to this argument may (at least...
BOTH JEW AND GENTILE ARE IN THE SAME POSITION. ALL ARE UNDER SIN (3:9-20). Paul does not want any of his readers to think therefore that this puts them in a better position than the Jews, for as he h...
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 3:9. WHAT THEN. The Apostle now returns to his main argument, after the digression, which, however, is referred to in this question. ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY? That ‘we' refers to the Jews appea...
WHAT THEN? (τ ουν?). Paul's frequent query, to be taken with verses Romans 3:1; Romans 3:2.ARE WE IN WORSE CASE THAN THEY? (προεχομεθα?). The American Revisers render it: "Are we in better case th...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Romans 3:9 Every Mouth Stopped. I. Perhaps some readers are aware of a feeling of disappointment at reaching this result. Not that they doubt the native depravity of mankind, or the certainty that al...
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?_ If, after all, both Jew and Gentiles were under sin, what advantage had the Jew by the covenant under which he...
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? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ The Jews of old had a great...
Romans 3:9. _What then? are we better than they?_ The first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans contains so horrible an account of the manners of the Gentiles, the heathen of Paul's day, that it is...
Romans 3:9. 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; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: T...
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...
IN ANY BETTER CONDITION? The Jew was surprised to see his advantages disappear. "Surely we Jews are in better condition, than the Gentiles because of our _devoutness!"_ NOT AT ALL! Paul makes this str...
_What then?_ Are we better than they? No … they are all under sin. NOMINAL CHRISTIANS COMPARED WITH HEATHEN 1. Have much advantage every way (Romans 3:2). 2. Are no better. 3. Are all alike under...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:9 GREEKS. The entire Gentile world in contrast to the Jews. ⇐ ⇔
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:9.—Do we bring pleas forward on behalf of ourselves—_i.e._, in fear of a sentence of condemnation against ourselves? (Stuart.) Romans 3:10.—The apostle having mentioned that...
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 10:19; 1 Corinthians 14:15; 1 Corinthians 4:7; Galatians 3:10;...
Are we better [π ρ ο ε χ ο μ ε θ α]. Rev., are we in worse case than they? Render, with the American Revisers, are we in better case than they, i e., have we any advantage ? The Rev. takes the verb as...
SIN AND SALVATION Romans 3:9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Word of God never belittles sin. Sin, to God, is heinous. It is black, without one ray of white. Sin to God is exceeding sinful. There is nothing...
What then — Here he resumes what he said, Romans 3:1. Under sin — Under the guilt and power of it: the Jews, by transgressing the written law; the gentiles, by transgressing the law of nature....
Here the apostle starts another objection in the name of the Jews: Some of them might say, "Are we not better than the Gentiles? Do we not excel them in outward privileges? Is not the knowledge of the...