What does Romans 3:26 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus."
ROMANS 3:26 VIhsou/ The expansion of VIhsou/ (a A B C K P 81 1739 _Byz al_) by the addition of Cristou/ (629 it(d*), 61 copbo _al_) is a natural scribal accretion. The reading of syrp (kuri,ou h`mw/n...
Verse 26. _TO DECLARE_, I SAY, _AT THIS TIME_] To manifest _now_, by the dispensation of the _Gospel, his righteousness_, his infinite mercy; and to manifest it in such a way, that he might still app...
AT THIS TIME - The time now since the Saviour has come, now is the time when he manifests it. THAT HE MIGHT BE JUST - This verse contains the substance of the gospel. The word “just” here does not mea...
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 manifestatio...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
AT THIS TIME. in (Greek. _en)_ the present season (App-195). THAT, &C. = to (Greek. _eis)_ His being. JUST. Same as "righteous", Romans 3:10. WHICH BELIEVETH, &C. Literally the one out of (App-104....
_at this time_ The word translated "time" means usually OCCASION, "special time," "due time." Same word as ch. Romans 5:6. Such a sense is natural here. The "declaration" of God's righteousness in par...
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...
ΑΝΟΧΉ (G463) терпение, выносливость (_см._ Romans 2:4). ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. inf. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Артикулированный _inf._ с ΕΙΣ (G1519) выражает цель или результат, ΔΙΚΑΙΟΫ́ΝΤΑ _praes. act. pa...
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 propitiatio...
TO DECLARE, I SAY, &C.— "He has, I say, proposed his Son for a demonstration of his righteousness, or method of justifying; which now, in this present ever-memorable and signal time, is so wonderfully...
_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...
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. TO DECLARE, [I SAY], AT THIS TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS - `For the showing...
_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...
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 advantag...
(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...
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);...
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...
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...
To declare, [I say], (a) at this time his righteousness: that he might be (b) just, and the (c) justifier of him which (d) believeth in Jesus. (a) That is, when Paul wrote this. (b) That he might be...
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...
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...
_JUSTIFICATION_ ‘That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.’ Romans 3:26 This text brought peace to the mind of Cowper the poet. It suggests— I. THE SOURCE OF OUR J...
26._For a demonstration, _(121) _etc. _The repetition of this clause is emphatical; and Paul resignedly made it, as it was very needful; for nothing is more difficult than to persuade man that he ough...
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...
TO DECLARE, I SAY, AT THIS TIME, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... This end is further explained, it being to declare the righteousness of God "at this time", under the Gospel dispensation; in which there was su...
To declare, _I say_, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Ver. 26. _To declare_] Gr. ενδειξις, for a clear demonstration or pointi...
Rom. 3:25, 26. "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declar...
_Whom God hath set forth_ Before angels and men: hath in his infinite mercy exhibited to us in the gospel, _to be a propitiation_ Greek, ιλαστηριον, _a propitiatory_, or mercy-seat, where mercy may be...
AT THIS TIME; the time in which Paul lived, under the gospel dispensation. JUST, AND THE JUSTIFIER; that is, just while at the same time he is the justifier. These words set forth the only possible c...
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 3:26 for the showing,. say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus. 'For the showing' -what God did i...
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,...
TO DECLARE, I SAY, AT THIS TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; he repeats the final cause of justification, viz. the making the after said declaration of the righteousness of God, in the time of the gospel, and d...
for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus. [God set forth (or exhibited in his blood on the...
Tertullian On Modesty of God, and provoke our own constancy? Because, albeit God is by nature good, still He is "just"[28]...
Romans 3:26 to G4314 demonstrate G1732 at G1722 present G3568 time G2540 His G846 righteousness G1343 that G1519 be G1511 (G5750) just G1342 and G2532 justifier G1344 (G5723) one G846 faith G4102 in G...
‘Whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God, for the showing, I s...
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 fo...
FOR THE SHEWING (προς την ενδειξιν). Repeats point of εις ενδειξιν of Romans 3:25 with προς instead of εις.AT THIS PRESENT SEASON (εν τω νυν καιρω). "In the now crisis," in contrast with "done af...
RIGHTEOUSNESS "His righteousness", here, is God's consistency with His own law and holiness in freely justifying a sinner who believes in Christ; that is, one in whose behalf Christ has met every dem...
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...
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 advan...
BUT NOW. In the past God overlooked men's sins and did not punish them immediately. But now, since the Cross and until time ends, God deals with men's sins. God's righteousness is demonstrated in the...
_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 3:26 In the cross of Christ, God has shown himself to be JUST (utterly holy, so that the penalty demanded by the law is not removed but is paid by Christ). He is also THE JUSTIFI...
_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...
Acts 13:38; Acts 13:39; Deuteronomy 32:4; Galatians 3:8; Isaiah 42:21; Isaiah 45:21; Psalms 85:10; Psalms 85:11; Revelation 15:3; Romans 3
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...
For a demonstration of his righteousness — Both of his justice and mercy. That he might be just — Showing his justice on his own Son. And yet the merciful justifier of every one that believeth in Jesu...