But by the free gift. God acted in history through Jesus Christ to set men free from their sin. This is a free gift, because we did nothing to earn it! God had it all done before we found out about it! Compare 1 Corinthians 2:7-10.
Verse 24. _BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE_] So far from being able to attain the glory of God by their obedience, they are all guilty: and, to be saved, must be freely pardoned by God's grace; w...
BEING JUSTIFIED - Being treated as if righteous; that is, being regarded and treated as if they had kept the Law. The apostle has shown that they could not be so regarded and treated by any merit of t...
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...
FREELY. Greek. _dorean._ See John 15:25. BY. Dative case. No preposition. GRACE. Greek. _charis._ App-184. Compare Romans 3:28; Romans 5:1;...
_being justified_ A present tense; indicating a constant procedure, in the case of successive individuals. _freely_ Lit. GRATIS, GIFT-WISE. Same word as John 15:25 ("without a cause," E. V.); 2 Corint...
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...
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ ΔΩΡΕᾺΝ Κ.Τ.Λ., ‘being declared righteous (so far as they are so declared) by a free act of GOD.’ The participle adds a third element to the description of the universal state, and returns...
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΔΙΚΑΙΌΩ (G1344) оправдывать. _Praes._ является iterat. и в каждом случае подчеркивает повторяющееся действие (RWP). О грамматических связях и использовании _part....
DISCOURSE: 1833 THE JUSTICE OF GOD IN JUSTIFYING SINNERS Romans 3:24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation...
BY HIS GRACE— _Grace_ or _favour_ means that compassionate disposition of the divine nature, whereby God freely remits his right of punishment, and receives penitent sinners into favour on terms which...
_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...
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY, [ doorean (G1432)] - without anything done on our part to deserve it (compare 2 Thessalo...
_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...
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...
JUSTIFIED] i.e. declared or accounted righteous, as by a judge; accepted: refers to 'them that believe,' Romans 3:22. God can justly declare a sinner righteous who has faith in Christ because his face...
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...
(21-26) 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...
BEING JUSTIFIED. — We should more naturally say, “but now _are_ justified.” The construction in the Greek is peculiar, and may be accounted for in one of two ways. Either the phrase “being justified”...
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...
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);...
δικαιούμενοι : grammatically, the word is intractable. If we force a connection with what immediately precedes, we may say with Lipsius that just as Paul has proved the universality of grace through t...
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...
(9) Being justified (u) freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: (9) Therefore this righteousness which we gain is altogether freely given, for its foundation is upon those...
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...
“ _Being justified as a pure gift by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus._ ” The participle δικαιούμενοι, _being justified_, takes us by surprise. Why give this idea, which is the...
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...
_ATONEMENT_ ‘Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.’ Romans 3:24 This verse and those which follow it are a full statement of the way of salvation. I....
24._Being justified freely, etc. _A participle is here put for a verb according to the usage of the Greek language. The meaning is, — that since there remains nothing for men, as to themselves, but to...
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...
BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE,.... The matter of justification is before expressed, and the persons that share in this blessing are described; here the several causes of it are mentioned. The mo...
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Ver. 24. _Being justified freely_] Because the apostle's word δωρεα is expounded by Varinus to be χαριτος αλλαγη, t...
_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...
FREELY BY HIS GRACE; it is wholly of grace, not of debt, that men are saved....
BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS;...
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 3:24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 'Justified' -1344. dikaioo dik-ah-yo'-o; from 1342; to render (i.e. show or regard as) just or inno...
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,...
BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE; i.e. Being in this case, they can by no means be acquitted and freed from the accusation and condemnation of the law, but in the way and manner that follows. He me...
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus [The apostle adds four additional details, viz.: 1. This, justification is conditional, being obtained through faith...
Romans 3:24 justified G1344 (G5746) freely G1432 His G846 grace G5485 through G1223 redemption G629 in G1722 Christ...
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...
‘Being justified (accounted as in the right) freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,' But on receiving the righteousness of God which is through faith in Jesus Christ to a...
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...
Romans 3:24. BEING JUSTIFIED. The present tense points, not to continuous justification of the individual, but to an action continuous as respects those spoken of in Romans 3:22-23. Because they are a...
BEING JUSTIFIED (δικαιουμενο). Present passive participle of δικαιοω, to set right, repeated action in each case, each being set right.FREELY (δωρεαν). As in Galatians 2:21.BY HIS GRACE (τη αυτ...
REDEMPTION Redemption, "to deliver by paying a price." The New Testament doctrine. The New Testament records the fulfilment of the Old Testament types and prophecies of redemption through the sacrifi...
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 3:1. _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...
_Being Justified freely by His grace._ JUSTIFICATION I. Its mode--“freely.” It is not a matter of wages, it is a free gift. II. Its origin--“His grace.” God’s free good will inclining Him to sinful...
_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...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:24 The word REDEMPTION recalls the exodus and the blood of the Passover lamb (see Exodus 12:1;...
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 6:11; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Timothy 2:6;...
Being justified. The fact that they are justified in this extraordinary way shows that they must have sinned. Freely [δ ω ρ ε α ν]. Gratuitously. Compare Matthew 10:8; John 14:25; 2 Corinthians 11:7;...
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...
And are justified — Pardoned and accepted. Freely — Without any merit of their own. By his grace — Not their own righteousness or works. Through the redemption — The price Christ has paid. Freely by h...
Observe here, 1. glorious privilege vouchsafed to believers, which the scriptures call JUSTIFICATION, whereby they are judicially acquitted and discharged from the guilt and punishment of all their si...