1 The jews prerogative;
3 which they have not lost;
9 howbeit the law convinces them also of sin;
20 therefore no flesh is justified by the law;
28 but all, without difference, by faith, only;
31 and yet the law is not abolished.

advantage. 2:25-29 Ge 25:32 Ec 6:8,11 Isa 1:11-15 Mal 3:14 1Co 15:32 Heb 13:9

2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Much. 3 11:1,2,15-23,28,29

because. 2:18 9:4 De 4:7,8 Ne 9:13,14 Ps 78:4-7 147:19,20 Isa 8:20 Eze 20:11,12 Lu 16:29-31 Joh 5:39 2Ti 3:15-17 2Pe 1:19-21 Re 19:10

committed. 1Co 9:17 2Co 5:19 Ga 2:7 1Ti 6:20

the oracles. 1:2 Ps 119:140 Da 10:21 Ac 7:38 2Ti 3:15,16 Heb 5:12 1Pe 4:11 2Pe 1:20,21 Re 22:6

3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

if some. 9:6 10:16 11:1-7 Heb 4:2

shall. 11:29 Nu 23:19 1Sa 15:29 Isa 54:9,10 55:11 65:15,16 Jer 33:24-26 Mt 24:35 2Ti 2:13 Heb 6:13-18

faith. Ps 84:7 Joh 1:16 2Co 3:18 2Th 1:3 Tit 1:1,2

4 God 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.

God forbid. 6,31 6:2,15 7:7,13 9:14 11:1,11 Lu 20:16 1Co 6:15 Ga 2:17 2:21 6:14

let God. De 32:4 Job 40:8 Ps 100:5 119:160 138:2 Mic 7:20 Joh 3:33 2Co 1:18 Tit 1:2 Heb 6:18 1Jo 5:10,20 Re 3:7

but every. Ps 62:9 116:11

That thou. Job 36:3 Ps 51:4 Mt 11:19

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

But if. 7,25,26 8:20,21

what shall. 4:1 6:1 7:7 9:13,14

Is God. 2:5 3:19 9:18-20 12:19 De 32:39-43 Ps 58:10,11 94:1,2 Na 1:2,6-8 2Th 1:6-9 Re 15:3 16:5-7 18:20

I speak. 6:19 1Co 9:8 Ga 3:15

6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

God forbid. See on 4

for then. Ge 18:25 Job 8:3 34:17-19 Ps 9:8 11:5-7 50:6 96:13 98:9 Ac 17:31

7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

if the truth. Ge 37:8,9,20 44:1-14 50:18-20 Ex 3:19 14:5,30 1Ki 13:17,18,26-32 2Ki 8:10-15 Mt 26:34,69-75

why yet. 9:19,20 Isa 10:6,7 Ac 2:23 13:27-29

8 And 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.

we be. Mt 5:11 1Pe 3:16,17

Let us. 5:20 6:1,15 7:7 Jude 1:4

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;

what then. 5 6:15 11:7 1Co 10:19 14:15 Php 1:18

are we. 22,23 Isa 65:5 Lu 7:39 18:9-14 1Co 4:7

proved. Gr. charged. 1:28 *etc: 2:1 *etc:

that they. Ga 3:10,22

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

As it is. 4 11:8 15:3,4 Isa 8:20 1Pe 1:16

There. Ps 14:1-3 53:1-3

none. 23 Job 14:4 15:14,16 25:4 Jer 17:9 Mt 15:19 Mr 7:21,22 Mr 10:18 1Co 6:9,10 Ga 5:19-21 Eph 2:1-3 5:3-6 Col 3:5-9 1Ti 1:9,10 2Ti 3:2-5 Tit 3:3 1Jo 1:8-10 Re 21:8 22:15

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

none that understandeth. 1:22,28 Ps 14:2-4 53:2,4 94:8 Pr 1:7,22,29,30 Isa 27:11 Jer 4:22 Ho 4:6 Mt 13:13,14,19 Tit 3:3 1Jo 5:20

seeketh. 8:7 Job 21:15,16 Isa 9:13 31:1 55:6 65:1 Ho 7:10

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

They are. Ex 32:8 Ps 14:3 Ec 7:29 Isa 53:6 59:8 Jer 2:13 Eph 2:3 1Pe 2:25

become. Ge 1:31 6:6,7 Mt 25:30 Phm 1:11

there is none. Ps 53:1 Ec 7:20 Isa 64:6 Eph 2:8-10 Php 2:12,13 Tit 2:13,14 Jas 1:16,17

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

throat. Ps 5:9 Jer 5:16 Mt 23:27,28

with their. 4 Ps 5:9 12:3,4 36:3 52:2 57:4 Isa 59:3 Jer 9:3-5 Eze 13:7 Mt 12:34,35 Jas 3:5-8

the poison. De 32:33 Job 20:14-16 Ps 140:3

14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Ps 10:7 59:12 109:17,18 Jas 3:10

15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:

Pr 1:16 6:18 Isa 59:7,8

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

17 And the way of peace have they not known:

5:1 Isa 57:21 59:8 Mt 7:14 Lu 1:79

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Ge 20:11 Ps 36:1 Pr 8:13 16:6 23:17 Lu 23:40 Re 19:5

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.

what things. 2 2:12-18 Joh 10:34,35 15:25 1Co 9:20,21 Ga 3:23 4:5,21 5:18

that. 4 1:20 2:1 1Sa 2:9 Job 5:16 9:2,3 Ps 107:42 Eze 16:63 Mt 22:12,13 Joh 8:9 1Co 1:29

and all the. 9,23 2:1,2 Ga 3:10,22

guilty before God. or, subject to the judgment of God.

20 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.

Therefore. 28 2:13 4:13 9:32 Ac 13:39 Ga 2:16,19 3:10-13 5:4 Eph 2:8,9 Tit 3:5-7 Jas 2:9,10

no flesh. Job 25:4 Ps 130:3 143:2 Jas 2:20-26

in his sight. Job 15:15 25:5

for by the. 7:7-9 Ga 2:19

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

righteousness. 1:17 5:19,21 10:3,4 Ge 15:6 Isa 45:24,25 46:13 51:8 54:17 Isa 61:10 Jer 23:5,6 33:16 Da 9:24 Ac 15:11 1Co 1:30 2Co 5:21 Ga 5:5 Php 3:9 Heb 11:4 *etc: 2Pe 1:1

being. De 18:15-19 Lu 24:44 Joh 1:45 3:14,15 5:46,47 Ac 26:22 Heb 10:1-14

and the. 1:2 16:26 Ac 3:21-25 10:43 28:23 Ga 3:8 1Pe 1:10

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

which is. 4:3-13,20-22 5:1 *etc: 8:1 Php 3:9

unto all. 4:6,11,22 Ga 2:16 3:6 Jas 2:23

and upon. Isa 61:10 Mt 22:11,12 Lu 15:22 Ga 3:7-9

for there. 2:1 10:12 Ac 15:9 1Co 4:7 Ga 3:28 Col 3:11

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

all have. 9,19 1:28-32 2:1 *etc: 11:32 Ec 7:20 Ga 3:22 1Jo 1:8-10

come. Heb 4:1

of. 5:2 1Th 2:12 2Th 2:14 1Pe 4:13 5:1,10

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

justified. 4:16 5:16-19 1Co 6:11 Eph 2:7-10 Tit 3:5-7

through. 5:9 Isa 53:11 Mt 20:28 Eph 1:6,7 Col 1:14 1Ti 2:6 Tit 2:14 Heb 9:2-14 1Pe 1:18,19 Re 5:9 7:14

25 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;

set forth. or, foreordained. Ac 2:23 3:18 4:28 15:18 1Pe 1:18-20 Re 13:8

to be. Ex 25:17-22 Le 16:15 Heb 9:5 *Gr: 1Jo 2:2 4:10

through. 5:1,9,11 Isa 53:11 Joh 6:47,53-58 Col 1:20-23 Heb 10:19,20

to declare. 26 Ps 22:31 40:10 50:6 97:6 119:142 1Jo 1:10

remission. or, passing over. 23,24 4:1-8 Ac 13:38,39 17:30 1Ti 1:15 Heb 9:15-22,25,26 10:4 11:7 Heb 11:14,17,39,40 Re 5:9 13:8 20:15

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

that he. De 32:4 Ps 85:10,11 Isa 42:21 45:21 Zep 3:5,15 Zec 9:9 Ac 13:38,39 Re 15:3

and. 30 4:5 8:33 Ga 3:8-14

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Where. 19 2:17,23 4:2 Eze 16:62,63 36:31,32 Zep 3:11 Lu 18:9-14 1Co 1:29-31 4:7 Eph 2:8-10

of works. 9:11,32 10:5 11:6 Ga 2:16

but by. 7:21,23,25 8:2 Mr 16:16 Joh 3:36 Ga 3:22 1Jo 5:11,12

28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

20-22,26 4:5 5:1 8:3 Joh 3:14-18 5:24 6:40 Ac 13:38,39 1Co 6:11 Ga 2:16 3:8,11-14,24 Php 3:9 Tit 3:7

29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

1:16 9:24-26 11:12,13 15:9-13,16 Ge 17:7,8,18 Ps 22:7 67:2 Ps 72:17 Isa 19:23-25 54:5 Jer 16:19 31:33 Ho 1:10 Zec 2:11 Zec 8:20-23 Mal 1:11 Mt 22:32 28:19 Mr 16:15,16 Lu 24:46,47 Ac 9:15 22:21 26:17 Ga 3:14,25-29 Eph 3:6 Col 3:11

30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

28 4:11,12 10:12,13 Ga 2:14-16 3:8,20,28 5:6 6:15 Php 3:3 Col 2:10,11

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

do we. 4:14 Ps 119:126 Jer 8:8,9 Mt 5:17 15:6 Ga 2:21 3:17-19

God. [Me genoito,] literally, let it not be, and which might be rendered less objectionably, far from it, by no means.

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yea. 7:7-14,22,25 8:4 10:4 13:8-10 Ps 40:8 Isa 42:21 Jer 31:33,34 Mt 3:15 5:20 1Co 9:21 Ga 2:19 5:18-23 Heb 10:15,16 Jas 2:8-12