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Romans 3:21

Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus

As long then as the former time[46]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

For verily I say unto you, Until heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law and the prophets till all come to pass."[545]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

And if, the Creator above all is confessed to be just, and the Lord to be the Son of the Creator; then the Lord is the Son of Him who is just. Wherefore also Paul says, "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested; "[173]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

the law; now it is "the righteousness of God which is by the faith of (Jesus) Christ."[622]

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See also Romans 3:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 21. _BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD_] God's _method of_ _saving sinners_ is now shown, by the Gospel, to be through his own mere mercy, by Christ Jesus; _without the law_-without any right or...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT NOW - The apostle, having shown the entire failure of all attempts to be justified by the “Law,” whether among Jews or Gentiles, proceeds to state fully the plan of justification by Jesus Christ i...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOW. at this present time. Greek. _nuni_. First of twenty-one occurances. WITHOUT THE LAW. apart from (Greek. _choris)_ law. IS MANIFESTED. Greek. _phaneroo._ App-106. Compare Romans 1:19. WITNESSED...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Divine method of holy pardon, alike for all 21. _But now_ i.e. "But as things are, as the fact is." Here the great argument of Pardon and Salvation begins, to close with the triumphant words of...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΝΥΝῚ = ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΝΥ͂Ν ΚΑΙΡΩ͂Ι, Romans 3:26, as things now are, under the Gospel dispensation. ΧΩΡῚΣ ΝΌΜΟΥ, apart from law. The idea is that man no longer has to look to law as GOD’s revelation of Himsel...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΕΦΑΝΈΡΩΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΦΑΝΕΡΌΩ (G5319) проявлять, прояснять. _Perf._ подчеркивает состояние или условие (К. L. McKay, "The Use of the Ancient Greek Perfect Down to the Second Century A. D"....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT NOW, &C.— _But now a righteousness of God without law is discovered, being testified by the law and the prophets,_ (Romans 3:22.) _even the righteousness of God through faith_ in Jesus Christ, &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; BUT NOW - [ nuni (G3570) de (G1161)]. We may view this either as a particle of transitio...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:21 without (n-3) 'Apart from.' see Hebrews 9:28 . God (o-7) See Note, ch. 1.17....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NOW] i.e. under the gospel. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS, etc.] RV 'apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested': cp. Romans 1:17. 'A righteousness of God,' i.e. a way of acceptance which God...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT NOW. — In these latter days. The Apostle conceives of the history of the world as divided into periods; the period of the Gospel succeeds that of the Law, and to it the Apostle and his readers bel...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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);...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    νυνὶ δὲ : but now. All time is divided for Paul into “now” and “then”. _Cf._ Ephesians 2:12 f., τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ … νυνὶ δέ; 2 Corinthians 5:16, ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν : the reception of the Gospel means the comin...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (7) But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (7) "Therefore", says the apostle, "so that men would not perish, God now exhibits tha...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    21._But now without the law, etc. _It is not certain for what distinct reason he calls that the righteousness of God, which we obtain by faith; whether it be, because it can alone stand before God, or...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD,.... The apostle having proved that all men are unrighteous, and that no man can be justified in the sight of God by his obedience, either to the law of nature or of M...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Ver. 21. _But now_] Since Christ came....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD; that which he has provided in and by his Son Jesus Christ, and which he freely gives to sinners upon condition of faith in Christ. See note to chap Romans 1:17. WITHOUT THE L...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. The righteousness of God revealed:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    __ GOD'S PROVISION FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS (RIGHT STANDING WITH HIM) The first three Chapter s demonstrated the great "need" for. way to make man right with God. For both Jew and Gentile found themselves...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BUT NOW: q.d. Though justification be not by the law, yet it is to be obtained in another way, as follows. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD: see ROMANS 1:17. WITHOUT THE LAW; inasmuch as the law, pressing obe...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets [Having shut up all under condemnation for sin under the law with its works, Paul tu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Romans 3:21 But G1161 now G3570 righteousness G1343 God G2316 from G5565 law G3551 revealed G5319 (G5769) witnessed...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But now apart from the law a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets,' This righteousness of God that God has provided is apart from the Law. It is not o...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Romans 3:21. BUT NOW. Either, ‘at this time,' _i.e._, in the gospel dispensation, or, ‘in this state of things,' _i.e.,_ as further defined. The latter is preferable. APART FROM THE LAW. Though the...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    BUT NOW APART FROM THE LAW (νυν δε χωρις νομου). He now (νυν emphatic logical transition) proceeds carefully in verses Romans 3:21-31 theNATURE of the God-kind of righteousness which stands manif...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD The righteousness of God is neither an attribute of God, not the changed character of the believer, but Christ Himself, who fully met in our stead and behalf every demand of the...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    BUT NOW GOD'S WAY. The Law and God's promise were two different things. See what Paul says in Galatians 3:17-18. The Law and the prophets told that God would provide a righteousness that did not origi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Peter 1:10; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 2 Peter 1:1;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Now [ν υ ν ι] Logical, not temporal. In this state of the case. Expressing the contrast between two relations - dependence on the law and non - dependence on the law. Without the law. In a sphere dif...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But now the righteousness of God — That is, the manner of becoming righteous which God hath appointed. Without the law — Without that previous obedience which the law requires; without reference to th...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Our apostle having proved negatively, that by the works of the law righteousness and justification is not to be had for any person, be he Jew or Gentile: He comes now to prove the affirmative part of...

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