Romans

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They Are All Under Sin

¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? ²Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:5-8Psalms 147:19Romans 9:4 ³For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?[ † ]Romans 10:16Hebrews 4:2Numbers 23:192 Timothy 2:13

⁴God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, And mightest overcome when thou art judged.

⁵But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)[ † ]Romans 6:191 Corinthians 9:81 Corinthians 15:32Galatians 3:15 ⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?[ † ]Genesis 18:25 ⁷For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? ⁸And not rather , (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.[ † ]Romans 5:20

⁹What 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;[ † ]Romans 3:19-23Romans 11:32Galatians 3:22

¹⁰as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

¹¹There is none that understandeth,

There is none that seeketh after God.

¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable;

There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre;

With their tongues they have used deceit;

The poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood:

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways:

¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Now 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.[ † ]John 10:34Job 5:16Psalms 107:42

God's Saving Gift

²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.[ † ]Psalms 143:2Acts 13:39Galatians 2:16

²¹But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;[ † ]Acts 15:11John 5:461 Peter 1:10 ²²even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:[ † ]Romans 10:12Galatians 3:28Colossians 3:11 ²³for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;[ † ]Galatians 3:22 ²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:[ † ]Romans 4:4-16Ephesians 2:8Titus 3:5-7Matthew 20:28Ephesians 1:7Colossians 1:141 Timothy 2:6Hebrews 9:12-151 Peter 1:18-19 ²⁵whom 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;[ † ]Leviticus 16:15Colossians 1:20Acts 14:16Acts 17:30Romans 2:4 ²⁶to declare, I say , at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

²⁷Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.[ † ]Romans 2:17-231 Corinthians 1:29Ephesians 2:9 ²⁸Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.[ † ]Galatians 2:16 ²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: ³⁰seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.[ † ]Romans 10:12Galatians 3:8-20 ³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.