By the deeds of the law; their own works in obedience to law.
No flesh; no individual of the human race.
Be justified; accepted of God or treated as righteous.
The knowledge of sin; when compared with or tried by the law of God, men are shown to be sinners, shut up under righteous condemnation, without the possibility, on the ground of their own works, of ever being saved.
Verse 20. _THEREFORE, BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW_] On the score of _obedience_ to this moral law, _there shall no flesh_, ουπασασαρξ, _no human being_, be justified; none can be accepted in the sight of...
BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW - By works; or by such deeds as the Law requires. The word “Law” has, in the Scriptures, a great variety of significations. Its strict and proper meaning is, a rule of conduct...
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...
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...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
THE DEEDS OF THE LAW. works of law. Compare Romans 3:27. THE LAW. law. See Romans 2:12. KNOWLEDGE. App-132....
_Therefore_ This verse sums up the great argument begun at Romans 1:18, and more especially that begun at Romans 2:1. The Apostle has laid deep the foundation of the fact of universal and intense sinf...
ΔΙΌΤΙ explains how law produces this effect. This sentence, while having particular reference to the Jew, is thrown into the most general form, so as to bring the Jew into line with the Gentile, and t...
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...
ΔΙΌΤΙ (G1360) потому что. έξ ΈΡΓΩΝ ΝΌΜΟΥ (G1537; G2041; G3551) перед делами закона, (_см._ обсуждение этого у Dunn; Byrne, с библиографией). ΔΙΚΑΙΩΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΔΙΚΑΙΌΩ (G1344) объявля...
DISCOURSE: 1830 THE EXTENT OF MAN’S DEPRAVITY Romans 3:10. It is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gon...
DISCOURSE: 1831 OUR VIOLATIONS OF EVERY COMMANDMENT Romans 3:20. _By the law is the knowledge of sin_. OUR lost estate, and our consequent need of a Saviour, can never be truly known, unless we compa...
BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW— The _deeds_ or _works of the law_ here mentioned appear to be those in which both Jews and Gentiles were defective; and with regard to which every mouth was stopped, or on acc...
_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...
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the la...
_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...
THEREFORE] RV 'because.' THE DEEDS OF THE LAW] RM 'works of law,' i.e. done to merit salvation by fulfilling an appointed task: cp. Romans 7:7; Galatians 3:19; Galatians 3:21. 'Law is a factor in 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...
(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...
THEREFORE. — Rather, _because._ All mankind alike owe the penalty for their sins. _Because_ not even the Law can protect its votaries. It has no power to justify. _All_ it can do is to expose in its t...
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...
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...
διότι means “because,” not “therefore,” as in A.V. The rendering “therefore” is perhaps due to the difficulty which the translators had in putting an intelligible meaning into “because”. The sense see...
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...
Therefore by the (o) deeds of the law there shall no (p) flesh be (q) justified in his (r) sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. (o) By those deeds by which the law can be done by us. (p)...
To the end of this chapter, the apostle shews that the Jews cannot be truly justified, and sanctified by the works of the written law of Moses only; that a knowledge of sin, or of what is sinful, came...
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:...
“ _Now we know that what things soever the law saith_, _it speaketh for them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become subject to judgment before God. Seeing...
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...
_WHAT IS SIN?_ ‘For by the law is the knowledge of sin.’ Romans 3:20 The scriptural definition of sin is that ‘sin is the transgression of the law.’ And it is a most accurate and comprehensive desc...
20._Therefore by the works of the law, etc. _It is a matter of doubt, even among the learned, what the works of the law mean. Some extend them to the observance of the whole law, while others confine...
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...
THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW,.... Hence it most clearly appears, that there can be no justification before God by the law, since it stops the mouths of men, and pronounces them guilty: by "the de...
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law _is_ the knowledge of sin. Ver. 20. _Therefore by the deeds of the law_] This is directly against Popi...
_Now what things soever the law saith_ That is, the Old Testament, for these quotations are not made from any part of the five books of Moses, but from the Psalms and Prophets; _it saith to them that...
THEREFORE, BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW THERE SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT; FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. In the previous passage the apostle had spoken of men in general, both Jews a...
A special word to the Jews:...
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...
__ Romans 3:20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin. 'Because' -the reason why the Jew found himself in sin. 'THR...
19,20 It is in vain to seek for justification by the works of the law. All must plead guilty. Guilty before God, is a dreadful word; but no man can be justified by a law which condemns him for breakin...
THEREFORE; i.e. Seeing the Gentiles, by the law of nature, and the Jews, by the written law, are thus subject to the judgment of God; and seeing no one is able to fulfil the law, and satisfy for the b...
because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin. [Having, by his quotations from the Old Testament, shown that the Jew was sin...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II How, then, is the law still said to be not good by certain heresies that clamorously appeal to the apostle, who says, "For by the law is the knowledge of sin? ...
Romans 3:20 Therefore G1360 by G1537 deeds G2041 law G3551 no G3956 G3756 flesh G4561 justified G1344 ...
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...
THUS THE LAW ENSURES THAT ALL ARE FOUND GUILTY BEFORE GOD (3:19-20). The consequence of all that has been described is that all men without exception are found by ‘the Law' (the Scriptures) to be gui...
‘Because by the works of the law will no flesh be justified (accounted as in the right) in his sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.' And this results from the fact that no flesh can...
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...
Romans 3:20. BECAUSE. The word here used means, in classical authors, ‘therefore' giving a conclusion from preceding; statements; but the prevailing sense in the New Testament is ‘because,' assigning...
BECAUSE (διοτ, again, δια, οτ).BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW (εξ εργων νομου). "Out of works of law." Mosaic law and any law as the source of being set right with God. Paul quotes Psalms 43:2 as he did...
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 3:20 I. That wrath of God against sin, to which conscience testifies, is itself merely His love, the opposition of His love to that which exalts itself against it. The fire of His love lights a...
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._ It was a great thing to be...
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...
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 3:1. _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...
BECAUSE. Since Paul is speaking to Jews, he speaks of _the Law,_ but this also can apply to law in general. In the present state of human nature, perfect obedience to law is impossible. WHAT THE LAW D...
_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...
_Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law._ THE LAW I. Its claims--are universal. II. Its teachings--distinct and authoritative. III. Its effects--...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:20 WORKS OF THE LAW means all that the law requires. JUSTIFIED is a legal term meaning “declared righteous” (see note on Gal. 2:16)....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:19 These verses represent the conclusion of vv. Romans 3:9 and all of Romans 1:18. All humans, witho
_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...
Acts 13:39; Ephesians 2:8; Ephesians 2:9; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 2
Works of the law. Not the Mosaic law in its ritual or ceremonial aspect; but the law in a deeper and more general sense, as written both in the decalogue and in the hearts of the Gentiles, and embraci...
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...
No flesh shall be justified — None shall be forgiven and accepted of God. By the works of the law — On this ground, that he hath kept the law. St. Paul means chiefly the moral part of it, Romans 3:9,...
Here we have St. Paul's conclusion drawn from all the foregoing premises: "Seeing all mankind, since the fall, are disabled, by their innate corruption, and actual transgression, to fulfil the law, ei...