These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Romans 3
Brit Hadashah 31 verses
- 1 What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or what benefit is to be derived from circumcision?
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The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with Elohim’s .
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Acts 7:38 Nehemiah 9:13-14 Psalm 147:19-20 1 Peter 4:11 Hebrews 5:12 2 Timothy 3:15-17 Romans 9:4 Romans 11:15-23 Romans 1:2 Psalm 119:140 1 Timothy 6:20 Ezekiel 20:11-12 Romans 11:28-29 Romans 2:18 Romans 11:1-2 Luke 16:29-31 Psalm 78:4-7 Galatians 2:7 1 Corinthians 9:17 Deuteronomy 4:7-8 Isaiah 8:20 Revelation 19:10 John 5:39 Revelation 22:6 2 Corinthians 5:19 Daniel 10:21 Romans 3:3 2 Peter 1:19-21 - 3 For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their faithlessness render Elohim’s faithfulness worthless?
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No, indeed; let us hold to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, “That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest.”
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Psalm 51:4 Psalm 116:11 Galatians 2:17 Luke 20:16 Romans 3:31 1 John 5:20 Psalm 119:160 Romans 6:2 Micah 7:20 Hebrews 6:18 Job 36:3 Romans 7:13 Romans 3:6-7 Job 40:8 Matthew 11:19 Psalm 138:2 Romans 6:15 John 3:33 1 John 5:10 Revelation 3:7 Deuteronomy 32:4 Romans 9:14 Titus 1:2 Galatians 6:14 Galatians 2:21 Romans 11:11 Romans 7:7 Psalm 100:5 Psalm 62:9 2 Corinthians 1:18 Romans 11:1 1 Corinthians 6:15 -
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But if our unrighteousness sets Elohim’s in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is unrighteous—I speak in our everyday language—when He inflicts punishment?
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Galatians 3:15 Romans 6:19 1 Corinthians 9:8 Romans 4:1 Romans 2:5 Deuteronomy 32:39-43 Romans 7:7 Romans 9:13-14 Romans 3:25-26 Revelation 16:5-7 Nahum 1:6-8 1 Corinthians 15:32 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9 Psalm 94:1-2 Nahum 1:2 Romans 3:19 Romans 9:18-20 Psalm 58:10-11 Revelation 18:20 Romans 12:19 Romans 3:7 Revelation 15:3 Romans 6:1 Romans 8:20-21 -
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No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?)
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- 7 If, for instance, a falsehood of mine has made Elohim’s truthfulness more conspicuous, redounding to His , why am I judged all the same as a sinner?
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And why should we not say—for so they wickedly misrepresent us, and so some charge us with arguing—”Let us do evil that good may come”? The condemnation of those who would so argue is just.
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- 9 What then? Are we Jews more highly estimated than they? Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin.
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Thus it stands written, “There is not one righteous man.
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Psalm 53:1-3 Psalm 14:1-3 Romans 3:23 Mark 7:21-22 Job 25:4 Matthew 15:19 1 John 1:8-10 Job 15:14 Ephesians 5:3-6 1 Timothy 1:9-10 Romans 3:4 Galatians 5:19-21 Mark 10:18 Jeremiah 17:9 Job 14:4 Revelation 21:8 Titus 3:3 Job 15:16 Romans 11:8 Romans 15:3-4 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 2 Timothy 3:2-5 Isaiah 8:20 Colossians 3:5-9 Ephesians 2:1-3 Revelation 22:15 1 Peter 1:16 -
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There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after .
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- 12 All have turned aside from the right path; they have every one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what is right—no, not so much as one.”
- 13 “Their throats resemble an opened grave; with their tongues they have been talking deceitfully.” “The venom of vipers lies hidden behind their lips.”
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“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
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“Their feet move swiftly to shed .
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- 16 Ruin and misery mark their path;
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and the way to they have not known.”
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“There is no of before their eyes.”
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But it cannot be denied that all that the Law says is addressed to those who are living under the Law, in order that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may await sentence from .
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Job 9:2-3 Psalm 107:42 Job 5:16 Romans 2:12-18 Ezekiel 16:63 John 15:25 1 Corinthians 9:20-21 Galatians 4:21 Romans 3:9 Galatians 3:10 Galatians 5:18 Romans 2:1-2 John 8:9 John 10:34-35 1 Samuel 2:9 Galatians 3:22-23 Romans 3:23 Romans 1:20 1 Corinthians 1:29 Romans 3:4 Romans 3:2 Matthew 22:12-13 Galatians 4:5 - 20 For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure knowledge of sin.
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But now a coming from has been brought to light apart from any Law, both Law and Prophets bearing witness to it—
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Acts 10:43 Jeremiah 33:16 Romans 1:2 Romans 1:17 Isaiah 45:24-25 Romans 16:26 Isaiah 61:10 Isaiah 51:8 Daniel 9:24 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Romans 5:19 Isaiah 46:13 John 1:45 Hebrews 10:1-14 Deuteronomy 18:15-19 Acts 15:11 Romans 5:21 Romans 9:30 John 3:14-15 1 Peter 1:10 Galatians 3:8 Acts 28:23 Romans 10:3-4 Galatians 5:5 1 Corinthians 1:30 2 Corinthians 5:21 2 Peter 1:1 Acts 3:21-25 Luke 24:44 Hebrews 11:4-40 Philippians 3:9 John 5:46-47 Isaiah 54:17 Acts 26:22 Genesis 15:6 - 22 a coming from , which depends on in the and extends to all who believe. No distinction is made;
- 23 for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the of ,
- 24 gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased through the deliverance which is found in .
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He it is whom put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through in His , in order to demonstrate His —because of the passing over, in Elohim’s forbearance, of the sins previously committed—
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1 John 4:10 1 John 2:2 Leviticus 16:15 Acts 17:30 Psalm 22:31 Exodus 25:17-22 Revelation 13:8 Hebrews 9:14-22 Romans 3:26 Romans 2:4 Hebrews 11:39-40 John 6:53-58 Hebrews 11:14 Romans 5:11 Hebrews 11:17 Acts 13:38-39 John 6:47 Revelation 5:9 Hebrews 9:5 Hebrews 10:4 1 Peter 1:18-20 Hebrews 11:7 Colossians 1:20-23 Isaiah 53:11 Romans 5:9 Acts 4:28 Acts 2:23 Romans 3:23-24 Revelation 20:15 Psalm 119:142 Hebrews 9:25-26 1 Timothy 1:15 Acts 3:18 Romans 4:1-8 Hebrews 10:19-20 1 John 1:10 Romans 5:1 Psalm 97:6 Psalm 40:10 Psalm 50:6 Acts 15:18 - 26 with a view to demonstrating, at the present time, His , that He may be shown to be righteous Himself, and the giver of to those who believe in .
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Where then is there room for your boasting? It is for ever shut out. On what principle? On the ground of merit? No, but on the ground of .
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Romans 2:23 Romans 4:2 1 Corinthians 1:29-31 Romans 2:17 1 John 5:11-12 Romans 10:5 Ezekiel 16:62-63 Romans 11:6 Romans 8:2 Galatians 2:16 Romans 9:11 Zephaniah 3:11 John 3:36 Romans 7:21 Galatians 3:22 Romans 9:32 1 Corinthians 4:7 Romans 7:23 Mark 16:16 Ezekiel 36:31-32 Romans 3:19 Luke 18:9-14 Romans 7:25 Ephesians 2:8-10 - 28 For we maintain that it is as the result of that a man is held to be righteous, apart from actions done in obedience to Law.
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Is simply the of the Jews, and not of the Gentiles also? He is certainly the of the Gentiles also,
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Zechariah 2:11 Romans 1:16 Romans 11:12-13 Colossians 3:11 Acts 22:21 Galatians 3:25-29 Matthew 28:19 Galatians 3:14 Hosea 1:10 Malachi 1:11 Zechariah 8:20-23 Jeremiah 31:33 Jeremiah 16:19 Isaiah 19:23-25 Genesis 17:7-8 Psalm 72:17 Romans 9:24-26 Luke 24:46-47 Isaiah 54:5 Matthew 22:32 Mark 16:15-16 Psalm 22:7 Psalm 67:2 Romans 15:9-13 Genesis 17:18 Ephesians 3:6 Romans 10:12 Acts 26:17 Acts 9:15 Romans 15:16 - 30 unless you can deny that it is one and the same who will pronounce the circumcised to be acquitted on the ground of , and the uncircumcised to be acquitted through the same .
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Do we then by means of this abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.
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Matthew 5:17 Romans 8:4 Galatians 2:21 1 Corinthians 9:21 Isaiah 42:21 Romans 4:14 James 2:8-12 Psalm 40:8 Galatians 3:17-19 Romans 7:7-14 Romans 7:25 Romans 10:4 Romans 7:22 Romans 13:8-10 Jeremiah 31:33-34 Jeremiah 8:8-9 Hebrews 10:15-16 Matthew 15:6 Psalm 119:126 Romans 3:4 Galatians 2:19 Matthew 5:20 Matthew 3:15 Galatians 5:18-23