“ Destruction and misery are in their ways: ”
Destruction - That is, they “cause” the destruction or the ruin of the reputation, happiness, and peace of others. Misery - Calamity, ruin. In their ways - Wherever they go. This is a str...
sums up the impeachment of mankind. Romans 3:9 . Paul has beaten down Jewish counter-pleas; he and his fellow-believers (we) might be supposed to have some apology in reserve: What then? do we ma...
Destruction . Greek. suntrimma. Only here. Literally. breaking, or bruising. Compare Romans 16:20 ; John 19:36 . misery . distress. Greek. talaiporia. Here and James 5:1 . Compare Romans 7...
16. Very striking is the sentence that is added from Isaiah, Ruin and misery are in all their ways; (102) for it is a representation of ferociousness above measure barbarous, which produces...
DISCOURSE: 1830 THE EXTENT OF MAN’S DEPRAVITY Romans 3:10-20 . It is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They a...
Destruction and misery are in their ways: Destruction and misery are in their ways - destruction is their work, and Misery to themselves and to the objects of their malice is the consequence of the...
As it is written— In these verses and quotations from Scripture, the Apostle is evidently giving a description of the general character and morals of the infidel Jews in his own time, when he wrote...
Destruction and misery are in their ways: No JFB commentary on this verse.
The New Way of Acceptance with God In Romans 1:2 St. Paul has shown that both Gentile and Jew have sinned wilfully, and are under God's condemnation. He now digresses to Jewish objections agains...
(9-20) Once more the argument returns to the main track, and at last the Apostle asserts distinctly and categorically what he had already proved indirectly, that the Jew is every whit as bad as the G...
Chapter 8 JEWISH CLAIMS: NO HOPE IN HUMAN MERIT Romans 3:1-20 As the Apostle dictates, there rises before his mind a figure often seen by his eyes, the Rabbinic disputant. Keen, subtle, unscru...
All Justly under Judgment Romans 3:9-20 A number of quotations are advanced-mostly from the Septuagint or Greek version of the Old Testament-establishing the hopeless evil of man's condition. T...
Paul here turned to a brief discussion of certain objections. First, "What advantage, then, hath the Jew?" He replied, "Much, every way." He then mentioned only one, which he spoke of as being "first...
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? I (speak as a man) (6) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? (7) Fo...
Destruction and misery are in their ways. This passage also is to be found in Isaiah 59:7 , and may be understood either actively thus: all the ways they take, and methods they pursue, are to make...
Destruction and misery are in their ways: Ver. 16. They mind nothing but mischief. ]
What then Well then, (may a Jew further urge,) since you grant that the Jews have the advantage of the Gentiles in point of privileges, having the oracles of God, the promises which he will never f...
What Advantage Has the Jew? Since God requires subjection of heart from the Jew, and at the same time honors a like subjection of heart in the Gentiles, the question arises, "What advantage then...
The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. A. D. 58. ...
Ver. 16,17. Both which assertions lie together, and follow in that Isaiah 59:7,8 .
Both Jew And Gentile Are In The Same Position. All Are Under Sin (3:9-20). Paul does not want any of his readers to think therefore that this puts them in a better position than the Jews, for as h...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 3:9 .—Do we bring pleas forward on behalf of ourselves— i.e. , in fear of a sentence of condemnation against ourselves? (Stuart.) Romans 3:10 .—The apostle having mentione...
Romans 3:9-20 Every Mouth Stopped. I. Perhaps some readers are aware of a feeling of disappointment at reaching this result. Not that they doubt the native depravity of mankind, or the certainty...
Romans 3:1 . What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision? If, after all, both Jew and Gentiles were under sin, what advantage had the Jew by the covenant under which...
The first part of this chapter, as far as the twentieth verse, belongs to the two preseding Chapter s, and confirms, by the words of David, the deplorable state of fallen man. Romans 3:1 . What ad...
What then? Are we better than they? No … they are all under sin. Nominal Christians compared with heathen 1. Have much advantage every way ( Romans 3:2 ). 2. Are no better. 3. Are all al...
EXPOSITION Romans 3:1-45 (2) Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met. In this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle meets certain objections tha...
The Scriptural Proof for the Universal Guilt of Mankind. Scripture includes all men under sin:
Romans 3:16
Sin and Salvation Romans 3:9-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Word of God never belittles sin. Sin, to God, is heinous. It is black, without one ray of white. Sin to God is exceeding sinful. There is...