John Trapp Complete Commentary
Romans 3:22
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Ver. 22. Upon all] So that none shall hinder their happiness.
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Ver. 22. Upon all] So that none shall hinder their happiness.
ROMANS 3:22 eivj pa,ntaj {B} In place of eivj pa,ntaj (î40 a* B C P Y 81 1739 _al_) a few witnesses read evpi. pa,ntaj (vg Pelagius John-Damascus). The Textus Receptus, follo...
Verse 22. _EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD_] That method of saving sinners which is not of _works_, but by faith in Christ Jesus; and it is not restrained to any _particular people_, as the law and its...
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD - The apostle, having stated that the design of the gospel was to reveal a new plan of becoming just in the sight of God, proceeds here more fully to explain it. The expl...
3. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED. Justification, what it is and what it Includes. Chapter 3:21-5:11. CHAPTER 3:21-31 _ 1. The Righteousness of God Manifested. (Romans 3:21 .)_ 2. Just and Just...
A new chapter opens in human history the achievement of REDEMPTION IN CHRIST JESUS. Romans 3:21. In the desperation to which man's sin, brought home to him by the Law, has reduced him, a manifestation...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
We know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are within the law, and the function of the law is that every mouth should be silenced and that the whole world should be known to be liable to...
EVEN. And. JESUS CHRIST. App-98. AND UPON ALL. Most texts omit. BELIEVE. App-150. DIFFERENCE. distinction. Greek. _diast_ ole. Elsewhere, Romans 10:12; 1 Corinthians 14:7....
_even_ Perhaps translate BUT, i.e. with a sort of contrast to the words just before. The "righteousness" was witnessed indeed by the O. T., _but_it resided in Christ and His work. _faith of Jesus Chri...
The failure of Jew and Gentile alike is met by the new dispensation of the Gospel, with the condition it demands of man, faith. The argument having explained ‘the revelation of wrath,’ returns to the...
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΎΝΗ ΔῈ, the phrase repeated with a qualification (not of law but by faith), introducing the distinctive condition, and so bringing into emphasis the fact that GOD’s righteousness is the true ai...
ΔΙΑ ΠΊΣΤΕΩΣ ΙΗΣΟ Χριστού "через веру в Иисуса Христа". _Gen._ рекомендуется понимать скорее как объектный, чем как субъектный, "преданность Иисуса Христа" (Моо; Dunn; GGBB, 114-15). ΕΙΣ ΠΆΝΤΑΣ (G1519...
DISCOURSE: 1832 THE BELIEVER’S RIGHTEOUSNESS Romans 3:21. _But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets; even the righteousness of God w...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:21-26. But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Romans 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in J...
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD [WHICH IS] BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRI...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 19 The passages from the Psalms might be turned by the Jews to apply to the nations. But the apostle rightly insists that what is written in the law is binding upon those und...
FAITH OF] RV 'faith in': cp. Galatians 2:16. This further defines the 'righteousness' spoken of. The means by which it is received is faith in Christ, and it is given to all who have such faith. Faith...
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...
(21-22) Such was the condition of the world up to the coming of Christ. But now, in contrast with the previous state of things, a new system has appeared upon the scene. In this system law is entirely...
(21-26) This then introduces the solemn enunciation, repeated more fully from Romans 1:16, of the great subject of the Epistle, the declaration of that new scheme by which, through Christ, God had rem...
A further definition of the nature of the righteousness so given to the Christian by God; it is a righteousness that has its root in faith, and is coextensive with faith, being present in every believ...
CHAPTER 9 THE ONE WAY OF DIVINE ACCEPTANCE Romans 3:21 So then "there is silence" upon earth, that man may hear the "still, small voice," "the sound of stillness," 1 Kings 19:12 from the heavens. "T...
δικαιοσύνη δὲ θεοῦ. The δὲ is explicative: “a righteousness of God (see on chap. Romans 1:17) [Romans 3:21], and that a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ”. In the Epistle to the Hebre...
The universal need of a Gospel has now been demonstrated, and the Apostle proceeds with his exposition of this Gospel itself. It brings what all men need, a righteousness of God (see on Romans 1:17);...
ALL FREELY JUSTIFIED BY GRACE Romans 3:21 From the universal need the Apostle turns to the all-sufficient remedy. The Law and the Prophets hinted dimly at justification by faith, but did not unveil i...
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...
(8) Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of (s) Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: (8) The matter, as it were, of this righteousness is Chr...
The new righteousness, then, being given without any legal work, what is the means by which it is conferred? Romans 3:22 answers: _faith in Jesus Christ._ Such is the _true_ means opposed to the false...
EIGHTH PASSAGE (3:21-26). THE FACT BY WHICH JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IS ACQUIRED FOR US. We have already proved that Romans 3:21 is directly connected in sense with Romans 1:17 (see p. 99). In the inter...
VV. 21, 22 a. “ _But now the righteousness of God is manifested without the law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ for all and upon al...
VV. 22 b, 23. “ _For there is no difference: for all have sinned, and are deprived of the glory of God._ ” By denying _all difference_, the apostle means here that there are not two ways by which men...
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (22) Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all...
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...
22._Even the righteousness of God, etc. _(115) He shows in few words what this justification is, even that which is found in Christ and is apprehended by faith. At the same time, by introducing again...
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...
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST,.... A further account is given of this righteousness: why it is called "the righteousness of God", and in what sense revealed and mani...
_But now the righteousness of God_ That is, the manner of becoming righteous which God hath appointed; _without the law_ Without that perfect and previous obedience which the law requires; without ref...
BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST; the benefits of whose obedience and death are obtained not by human works or merit, but by receiving him as a Saviour, and trusting in him for salvation. NO DIFFERENCE; betw...
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE; FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE,...
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. The righteousness of God revealed:...
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 3:21-31 1. How can one be justified by faith? a. Justification by faith as related to the law i. Was justification tied to the law? 1. Apart from the law 21 2. Apart from works of the law...
__ Romans 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; 'Faith in Jesus Christ' -for faith to result in. right standing wi...
21-26 Must guilty man remain under wrath? Is the wound for ever incurable? No; blessed be God, there is another way laid open for us. This is the righteousness of God; righteousness of his ordaining,...
He mentions THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD again, that he may further explain it, by the means or instrument by which it is received, viz. FAITH; see ROMANS 4:11,12 ROMANS 9:30 PHILIPPIANS 3:9; where there...
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;...
Romans 3:22 even G1161 righteousness G1343 God G2316 through G1223 faith G4102 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 to G1519 all...
GOD HAS PROVIDED A WAY BY WHICH MEN CAN BE ACCOUNTED AS IN THE RIGHT BEFORE GOD (3:21-4:25). Paul has spent a considerable time, from Romans 1:18 onwards, in demonstrating that all are under sin (weig...
‘Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them who believe, for there is no distinction,' And this righteousness of God is through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe....
Romans 3:22. EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD THROUGH FAITH, or, ‘a righteousness, however (mediated), through faith' (Meyer); the article being omitted, as in Romans 3:21, before ‘righteousness.' There...
1. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS TO ALL, JEW AND GENTILE, BY FAITH. The section opens (Romans 3:21) with the statement of the theme of this division, as contrasted with Romans 3:20; Romans 3:22-26 set for...
2. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS BY FAITH. The theme of this second main division of the doctrinal part of the Epistle may be found in Romans 3:21: (1.) The righteousness of God apart from the law has bee...
EVEN (δε). Not adversative here. It defines here.THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST (δια πιστεως [Ιησου] Χριστου). Intermediate agency (δια) is faith and objective genitive, "in Jesus Christ," not subj...
Romans 3:21 Paul's Evangel. The history of God's relations with human sin breaks into two before Christ, and after Christ. The death of Christ, which marks the point of division, is at the same time...
Romans 3:22 Paul here, in his grand way, triumphs and rises above all these small differences between man and man, more pure or less pure, Jew or Gentile, wise or foolish, and avers that in regard of...
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 3:19. _Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by t...
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...
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 3:1. _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...
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...
THROUGH THEIR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. Faith in Christ is the condition. In this sense it is faith alone which saves, but the faith which saves cannot be alone. See note on James 2:19. Faith is not a co...
_But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested._ THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS I. Prepared by God. Devised; approved; conferred by Him. II. Attested by the law and the prophets. III...
_The righteousness of God which is by the faith of Christ unto all and upon all them that believe._ THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS I. Divine in its nature. II. Free in its dispensation--unto and upon all th...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:21 The Saving Righteousness of God. Paul now explains that people can have a right standing with God only through faith in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:22. BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE.—Faith apprehends and appropriates a personal mediator. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.—Our participation by f...
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 4:7; Acts 15:9; Colossians 3:11; Galatians 2:16;...
Faith of Jesus Christ. A common form for "faith in Christ." Difference [δ ι α σ τ ο λ η]. Only by Paul here, Romans 10:12; 1 Corinthians 14:7. Better, as Rev., distinction....
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...
LAW AND GRACE Romans 3:19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The meaning and scope of the Law. Law is a word filled with glory, but wholly foreign to Grace. Law is the measure of the holy requirements of a righ...
To all — The Jews. And upon all — The gentiles That believe: for there is no difference — Either as to the need of justification, or the manner of it....