Romans 3:1-20
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Therefore
what advantage does the Jew have?
or what is the value of circumcision?
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Actually, there are many advantages
First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God
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What then?
If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?
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Absolutely not!
Let God be proven true
and every human being shown up as a liar
just as it is written:
"so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are
judged.”
~>Ps 50:6 LXX
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But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we
say?
The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he?
(I am speaking in human terms.)
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Absolutely not!
For otherwise how could God judge the world?
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For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory
why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?
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And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”?
as some who slander us allege that we say.
(Their condemnation is deserved!)
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What then?
Are we better off?
Certainly not
for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin
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just as it is written
there is no one righteous, not even one
~>Ps 14:1-3
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there is no one who understands
there is no one who seeks God
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all have turned away
together they have become worthless
there is no one who shows kindness, not even one
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their throats are open graves
~>Ps 5:10 LXX
they deceive with their tongues
the poison of asps is under their lips
~>Ps 139:4 LXX
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their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness
~>Ps 10:7
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their feet are swift to shed blood
~>Is. 59:7-8
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ruin and misery are in their paths
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and the way of peace they have not known
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there is no fear of God before their eyes
~>Ps 36:1
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Now we know
that whatever the law says
it says to those who are under the law
so that every mouth may be silenced
and the whole world may be held accountable to God
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For
no one is declared righteous before him
by the works of the law
for through the law
comes the knowledge of sin
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