‘But glory and honour and peace to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek,'

But lest the Jew think that he is prejudiced against them by suggesting that they are first on God's target list, Paul then points out that the same priority applies to those who work good. For, as he has already demonstrated in Romans 2:7, to every man who works good there will be glory and honour and peace (wellbeing). Thus none who are truly God-like, if such there be, will lose out, and again the Jew takes precedence. But as we shall see, Paul will inexorably ram home his argument that none achieve this standard, for all have sinned (Romans 3:10).

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