1The Jew's prerogative; 3which is not vacated by the unbelief of some; 5nor is God's justice impeached in punishing their sinfulness. 9The law itself convinceth the Jews also universally of sin; 20so that no flesh is justified by the deeds of the law; 21but all indiscriminately by God's grace through faith in Christ: 31yet without annulling the obligations of the law.
1WHAT aadvantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
a Ec. 1.3; 3.19; 6.8. Da. 5.14; 6.3. ch. 2.26,28,29. Phi. 3.5.
2bMuch every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed cthe oracles of God.
b De. 32.9; 4.7,8. Ps. 78.5; 147.18-20. ch 2.18; 9.4,5. Ep. 2.12. c He. 5.12.
3dFor what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
d Nu. 23.19. 1Sa. 15.29. ch. 9.6; 10.16; 11.29. 2Ti. 2.13. He. 4.2.
4God forbid: yea, elet 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.
e Ps. 116.11; 51.4; 62.9. Jn. 3.33; 8.26. Job 40.8. Is. 46.10. Ps. 86.15; 100.5. Mi. 7.20. Lu. 10.35. De. 32.4.
5fBut if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, gwhat shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak has a man)
f ch. 5.8,20. Tit. 3.3-5. g ch. 4.1; 6.1; 7.7; 9.14. h ch. 6.19. 1Co. 9.8. Ga. 3.15.
6iGod forbid: for then jhow shall God judge the world?
i v.4. ch. 6.2,15; 9.14; 7.7. j Ge. 18.25. Job 8.3; 34.17. Ps. 11.6,7; 7.8,9; 9.8; 96.13; 98.9; 50.6.
7kFor if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
k v.4,5,8. ch. 5.8,20.
8And not rather , (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) lLet us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
l ch. 5.8,20; 6.1,15; 7.7. Jude 4.
9What then? mare we better than they ? No, in no wise: for we have before 1proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
1Gr. charged, ch. 1.
m v.1,10-20,23. Ga. 3.22.
10As it is written, nThere is none righteous, no, not one:
n Ps. 14.1-5; 53.1-5; 36.1-4. Ep. 2.1-3. Tit. 3.3. 2Pe. 2.13-15.
11oThere is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
o Ps. 14.2,4. Is. 27.11. Ho. 4.6. Ep. 4.17,18. 2Co. 4.3,4. ch. 10.2,3. Je. 4.22.
12pThey are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
p Ps. 14.3. Ec. 7.29. Je. 2.13. Is. 1.2,4; 5.7-23; 9.17,18; 24.5; 57.3-5; 59.7-15; 64.6. 1Co. 6.9,10. Ga. 5.19-21. Tit. 3.3.
13qTheir throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; rthe poison of asps is under their lips:
q Ps. 5.9; 12.2,3; 55.21; 36.1-4. Mat. 15.19. Je. 9.2-6. r Ps. 140.3; 52.2,3; 55.3; 57.4; 64.3; 58.4. Is. 59.3-8. Je. 9.2-6. Ja. 3.6,8.
14sWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
s Ps. 10.7; 5.9; 36.3. Job 20.13. Ja. 3.6-9.
15tTheir feet are swift to shed blood:
t Pr. 1.16; 4.16. Is. 59.7,8. Ho. 4.1,2. Ps. 120.7. Is. 59.7-15. Eze. 22. Tit. 3.3. Ep. 2.2,3.
16Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17And the way of peace have they not known:
18uThere is no fear of God before their eyes.
u Ps. 36.1. Ge. 20.11. Ho. 10.3. Is. 1.2,4.
19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, vit saith to them who are under the law: wthat every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become 2guilty before God.
2Or, subject to the judgment of God.
v Ga. 3.10,13,23. ch. 1.32; 2.14,17,18. v.9. w Job 5.16. Ps. 107.42. Eze. 16.63. 1Co. 1.29; 14.21. ch. 1.20,32; 2.1. Jn. 15.22. Job 9.2,3.
20Therefore xby the deeds of the law there shall no yflesh be justified in his sight: for zby the law is the knowledge of sin.
x Ga. 2.16; 3.10,11. Ps. 143.2; 130.3. Job 9.2,3. Tit. 3.3,5. ch. 4.5; 7.9. y ch. 7.5,18,25; 8.1,3-5,8,9,12,13. z ch. 7.7,9,14; 5.20.
21But now athe righteousness of God without the law is manifested, bbeing witnessed by the law and the prophets;
a Is. 45.24. Je. 23.6; 33.16. ch. 1.17; 10.3; 5.19. Phi. 3.9. 2Pe. 1.1. 2Co. 5.21. b Ge. 3.15; 15.6; 22.18; 49.10. Is. 42.21; 53; 45.24,25; 54.17; 61.10. Je. 23.6. Da. 9.24,26. Zec. 13.7. Ac. 10.43; 15.11; 26.22. Jn. 5.46. 1Pe. 1.10,12.
22Even the righteousness of God which is cby faith of Jesus Christ dunto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
c ch. 1.17; 4.3,5; 5.1. Phi. 3.9. Ga. 2.16. d ch. 10.12. Ga. 3.28. Col. 3.11.
23For eall have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
e ch. 1.18-32. v.10-18. ch. 11.32. Ec. 7.20. Ga. 3.22.
24fBeing justified freely gby his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
f Ep. 1.6,7; 2.5,7,8. Col. 1.14. Tit. 3.5,7. Is. 53.11. Mat. 20.28. Jn. 3.6. ch. 5.19. He. 9.12,14. g ch. 4.16.
25Whom God hath 3set forth to be a *propitiation hthrough faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the 4*remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
3Or, foreordained, 1Pe. 1.18-20. 2Co. 5.21. ch. 8.3,32. Ga. 4.4. 1Jn. 1.2; 2.2; 4.10. Col. 1.20. Le. 16.15.
*propitiation-the wrath-ending sacrifice by which the Lord Jesus Christ secured His people's pardon.
4Or, passing over, He. 9.15. Ac. 17.30.
*remission-forgiveness, pardon.
h ch. 1.17; 5.1. Ac. 13.38,39; 10.43. Phi. 3.9. Ep. 2.13.
26To declare, I say , at this time ihis righteousness: that jhe might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
i Ps. 11.7; 119.137,142. Da. 9.24. Is. 45.24; 53; 54.17; 61.10. 1Co. 1.30. Phi. 3.9. j 2Co. 5.19,21. Is. 42.21. 1Jn. 1.9. 2Ti. 4.7,8. Jn. 3.14-17. Ac. 13.38,39.
27kWhere is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the llaw of faith.
k ch. 2.17,23; 4.2. 1Co. 1.29,31. Ep. 2.9. Tit. 3.4,5. Eze. 16.62,63; 36.25-32. l Is. 2.2; 51.4. Lu. 2.10,11.
28Therefore we conclude that ma man is justified by faith nwithout the deeds of the law.
m v.19-26. Ga. 2.16. Phi. 3.9. Tit. 3.5. Ac. 13.38,39. ch. 4.5,6; 5.1; 8.3. Is. 45.24,25; 64.6. Ep. 2.4-9. n ch. 7.8,9.
29oIs he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
o ch. 1.16. v.22. Ge. 17.5,7; 22.11. Ga. 3.26,28. Col. 3.11.
30pSeeing it is one God, *which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and quncircumcision through faith.
*which-who.
p ch. 4.11; 10.12. Ac. 13.39. Da. 3.8,28. q Ga. 3.8.
31rDo we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
r ch. 10.4; 8.4. Mat. 5.17. 1Jn. 4.9,10,19. Ga. 3.24. He. 10.15,16.