1 What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged." 5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?--as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath?
How they are accusing Paul?
Is their condemnation is just?
What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
How they might have taken advantage of God given oracles?
Did they really take advantage of God given oracles?
Application:
What is the advantage of being a Christians?
Who is the model for the Christians?
Are we bold enough to say "Be a imitators of me as I imitate Jesus Christ"?
What are the ways that we can imitate Jesus Christ?
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Are you light to others? or Are you light of the world?
Are you the salt of this earth? Is our speech seasoned with salt?
Are we labor in love especially loving those who didn't love you or love those who difficult to love?
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How God talk/lead us to do some specific task?
For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
What it means "their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect"? How?
What is God doing faithfully?
Does His faithful efforts go waste?
Why God's faithful efforts will not go waste?
What it means "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged."?
Application: Does God's word and promises are true to you?
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath?
Why Paul says that "I Speak as a man"?
Application: Is there any popular questions/sayings like this out there now?
Why loving God going to judge and send some to Hell? Didn't God forgive all of us and not send anyone to Hell?
What is your opinion about God? or What is your opinion about the Bible?
Why God will judge anyone and send to Hell if He wired us they we are now God created us?
How our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God?
Does God needs our unrighteous deeds to demonstrate His righteousness?
Is it possible for God to demonstrates His righteousness without our unrighteousness?
How God demonstrates His righteousness without our unrighteousness?
Does God really needs to demonstrate His righteousness at the cost of our unrighteousness?
Did God used/asked Judas to betray Jesus to demonstrate His righteousness?
Did God ever tempt anyone or make anyone to sin for any reason?
What it means "For then how will God judge the world"?
How will God judge the world if their statement is true?
Is their statement is true?
Application: What lesson you have learned from this passage?
For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?
How they are accusing Paul?
Is this what Paul teaching?
Why then they were accusing Paul?
Application: What lesson you have learned from this passage?
Whose condemnation is just?
All are sinners or The Whole World Is Guilty!
9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. 10 As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." 13 "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips"; 14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace they have not known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
What then? Are we better than they?
Why they were charged?
Is "all are sinners/unrighteous" a New Testament teaching/concept?
What does the law say to all?
Why are all the people in the world are guilty? or Is there anyone justified in God's sight by the deeds of the law?
Why did God give this law?
Who does Paul refers to as "we" here?
Are Jews better than Greeks/Gentiles?
Why Jews and Greeks/Gentiles were charged?
Is "all are sinners/unrighteous" a New Testament teaching/concept?
How worst sin affected the entire man kind?
Is there really not even one righteous person exist in the world except Jesus Christ?
Did God call Noah Righteous?
Did God call Noah Righteous because he lived such righteous life in the sight of God?
Why did God call Noah a Righteous?
Why there is no righteous person exist in the sight of God?
Is there really not even one who understands except Jesus Christ?
What do we need to understand?
What are all the things we need to understand?
How does God reveal Himself to us all? How do we know God?
Does everyone love to gain this knowledge?
Why does everyone hate to gain this knowledge?
Where does the understanding come from?
Do we really need this understanding?
Application:
Why do we need understanding?
What happens when we lack understanding?
Is there really not even one seeks after God except Jesus Christ?
What are people seeking in the name of religion? or What in the world people are seeking in the name of religion?
What are they seeking?
Are we really seeking the true and living God?
Didn't God created each one of us and place us in specific geographical location and make us to seek God?
Is God's effort going waste in creating us in specific location and make us to seek Him?
Are we all really turn aside and become unprofitable?
How useless are we?
Is there really not even one who does good except Jesus Christ?
Haven't you seen good people around you? Could you please name them at least one or two?
Why does the Bible say that there is no one who does good?
Who is good as per the Bible?
Application: Who will deliver us from this body of death?
How does Sin affect our speech?
What one thing does Romans 3:13,14 point to?
What comes out of the their mouth/tongue if their throat is an open tomb?
What is really causing their tongue/mouth to produce filthy words/speech?
What does their bitterness in their heart causes them to do?
How does Sin affect our ways?
What one main thing does Romans 3:15-17 point to?
What is really causing our ways to be destructive?
Application for Romans 3:13-17:
Do the lost sinners have hope?
What is God's way of peace?
Can a sinner's/condemned mouth become a converted mouth?
What is God's way of our life?
What can tongue do to believers in Christ? or How tongue can affect believers in Christ?
Why no man can tame the tongue as per James 3:8?
Does believers in Christ can tame their tongue?
How believers in Christ can tame the tongue and walk with God?
Example: Compare the above application with Nehemiah?
What ultimate thing can Sin do for us? or Why are we living in such a sinful/unrighteous life?
Why there is no fear of God before their eyes?
Summary: How is our human state without God?
What does the law say to all?
Why all the people in the world are guilty before God? or Is there anyone justified in God's sight by the deeds of the law?
Is Paul deriving a new statement using the word "Therefore"?
What is Justification?
Why by the deeds of the law can no one will be saved/Justified?
How sinners can be saved? How can the holy God declare sinners righteous? Is justification merely a "fictional idea" that has no real foundation?
Why did God give this law?
Why Jesus said that our righteousness must exceed the righteousness of Phrases and Sadducees to enter into the heaven?
Is this a true and real requirement to enter into heave?
What we can do?
What God want us to do?
Has your mouth ever been stopped?
Are you boasting of your own self-righteousness and defending yourself before God?
How our righteousness exceeds the righteousness of Phrases and Sadducees to enter into the heaven? or
How sinners can be saved? How can the holy God declare sinners righteous? Is justification merely a "fictional idea" that has no real foundation?
Justification by Faith Explained:
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
What is revealed?
Who has witnessed that?
How do you receive that?
To whom it is available?
Is there any difference?
Why there is no difference?
How God justify us?
How God made Jesus blood as a propitiation to those who have faith in Him?
Why God made His son Jesus Christ blood to be a propitiation to those who have faith?
How God demonstrate His righteousness?
How God demonstrate His righteousness now?
Where is boasting then?
By what law? Of works?
What is the law of faith?
Is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles?
Does God's justification varies to Gentiles? or Does God justify both Jews & Gentiles the same way?
Do we then make void the law through faith?
What is revealed?
What is reveal means?
What is the righteousness of God?
What is the state of our righteousness?
How the righteousness of God has been revealed?
Is the righteousness of God revealed by our works of the law?
Who has witnessed the righteousness of God?
Where and When they have witnessed about this God's Righteousness?
Why the righteousness of God revealed?
How do you receive that righteousness of God?
To whom the righteousness of God is available?
Is there any difference?
What difference is not there?
Why there is no difference?
Interpretation (3:24-26): How God justify those have faith in Jesus Christ? Through whom the righteousness of God is available?
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
What is Grace?
Is Grace is same as mercy?
Read Grace article for more details.
What is Grace?
How do you receive it?
Is it possible to receive more grace?
What are some benefits of grace?
If I am under grace, can I do anything I desire?
Application in our lives.
What is Redemption?
Read Redemption article for more details.
What is Redemption?
What are the elements of Redemption?
Why do we have to be redeemed?
Who can Redeem us and why?
Can I do something to redeem myself?
Application in our lives.
What is Propitiation?
ReadPropitiationarticle for detail explanation:
What is Propitiation?
Is it equivalent to bribing God?
What is Propitiation really means as per the Holy Bible?
Why we need to sacrifice?
Did God punish Adam and Eve when they had sinned first ?
Why God didn't punish or kill Adam and Eve as a sacrifice when they had sinned first ?
How God instituted propitiation in Old Testament time?
Does this propitiation in Old Testament time takes away their sins?
How frequent this propitiation in Old Testament time repeated?
Why God instituted propitiation in Old Testament time?
Who is that perfect propitiation?
How frequent this this perfect propitiation repeated?
Does God prepared this perfect propitiation before the foundation of this world?
When God first revealed this perfect propitiation to humanity?
Who provided this perfect propitiation?
Why this propitiation is the only perfect propitiation?
What are the major outcomes of this perfect propitiation?
What is justification?
ReadJustificationarticle for detail explanation:
What is Justify means?
What is Justification?
Is Justification is same as Salvation?
Is it possible to justify by ourselves?
Who justify us?
In what basis God Justify us?
Does this cost us anything?
How much does this cost God to justify us? or How God justify us?
Is Justification is an act or a process? or Is Justification is an one time event or recurring event?
Is Justification is same as Sanctification?
What are the few major outcomes of this justification?
How God justify us?
Why and How the redemption is only in Christ Jesus? or How God redeemed us through Jesus Christ?
Summary:
Why God made His son Jesus Christ to be the propitiation or atonement sacrifice?
Is He not demonstrated His righteousness without dying on the cross?
Why then Jesus died on the cross to demonstrate His righteousness?
Why not God by His sovereign power justify or save those who have faith in Him? or Does God has sovereign power to justify/save those who have faith in Jesus Christ?
Describe briefly the sovereign power of our God:
Is it possible to justify us through His Sovereign power?
Does God is unrighteous? Does God shows partiality?
How come the sovereign God never exercise the sovereign power if it compromise His righteousness?
How then the sovereign God chose Jacob but not Esau.?
To understand this better let us go though the Daniel in the lion's den history in Daniel 6:
Why Daniel thrown into the Lion's den?
Why not the king Darius pardon/excuse Daniel and rescued him from this great punishment? or Why can't the king revoke the decree he issued?
Is there anything the king Darius might have done to rescue Daniel from this great punishment?
How God demonstrate His righteousness in the past?
What is forbearance?
What is passed over means?
Whose sins are passed over?
Why Jesus went to the deep after His death and before His resurrection?
How God demonstrate His righteousness now?
How can God be both "just and the justifier"?
Summary: How God demonstrate His righteousness?
Application:
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
Can we boast ourselves, that we have been justified or entered into the Kingdom of God?
Why can't we boast ourselves?
Is justification is by our works?
What is the law of faith?
Why it is wrong to boast ourselves?
Is it ok to boast if we decided to continue to stay in the faith or the Kingdom of God? or
Is it ok to boast if we decided to leave the faith or the Kingdom of God?
Don't we have free will to choose whatever we want?
Whom we are boasting here?
Does this mean that whatever efforts we put are go waste?
Is there anyone we can boast of when we think of our salvation/justification?
Why God alone is worthy to be praised?
What are all God's contribution for our Salvation?
How God accomplish these?
What is proved again through these long explanation from Romans 1:16 - 3:27?
Why Paul is proving again that justification is by faith alone?
Does God justify both Jews and Gentiles the same way?
Why does Paul say faith in Jesus Christ establishes the law?