Romans 3:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Romans 3:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Therefore - As the result of the previous train of argument. That a man - That all who are justified; that is, that there is no other way. Is justified by faith - Is regarded and treated...

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• Romans 3:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A new chapter opens in human history the achievement of Redemption in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:21 . In the desperation to which man's sin, brought home to him by the Law, has reduced him, a manifes...

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• Romans 3:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  conclude . reckon. Greek. logizomai. See Romans 2:3 . the . Omit.

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• Romans 3:28 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  28. We then conclude, etc. He now draws the main proposition, as one that is incontrovertible, and adds an explanation. Justification by faith is indeed made very clear, while works are expr...

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• Romans 3:28 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1834 JUSTIFICATION WITHOUT BOASTING Romans 3:27-28 . Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is j...

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• Romans 3:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Therefore we conclude, etc. - Seeing these things cannot be denied, viz., that all have sinned: that all are guilt...

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• Romans 3:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Therefore we conclude— This inference is drawn from the whole preceding argument. The Greek word Ανθρωπος, in the singular, without the article, frequently signifies man, mankind, or anyman whatso...

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• Romans 3:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

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• Romans 3:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Romans 3:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (27-31) A review of the consequences of this process of justification. How does it affect the pretensions of the Jew? It shuts them out by laying stress no longer on works, which were the proper fulf...

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• Romans 3:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 9 THE ONE WAY OF DIVINE ACCEPTANCE Romans 3:21-31 So then "there is silence" upon earth, that man may hear the "still, small voice," "the sound of stillness," 1 Kings 19:12 from the...

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• Romans 3:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  All Freely Justified by Grace Romans 3:21-31 From the universal need the Apostle turns to the all-sufficient remedy. The Law and the Prophets hinted dimly at justification by faith, but did not...

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• Romans 3:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Romans 3:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (28) Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. (29) Is he the G...

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• Romans 3:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore we conclude ,.... This is the conclusion from the premises, the sum total of the whole account: that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law . The subject of justificati...

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• Romans 3:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Ver. 28. A man is justified by faith ] Here St Paul shows himself a pure Lutheran, and is therefore sharply an...

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• Romans 3:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Therefore we conclude As if he had said, Since it appears, by what has been said, that all are sinners, involved in guilt and condemnation, and so cannot be justified by the law, whether natural or...

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• Romans 3:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Romans 3:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Justification by Faith; Christ a Propitiation. A. D.  58.       19 Now we know that what things soe...

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• Romans 3:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Here is the conclusion of the whole matter that he had been discoursing of, from Romans 1:17 to this very place. When he says, we conclude, he means, we have reasoned or argued well, as logicia...

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• Romans 3:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘We reckon therefore that a man is justified (reckoned as in the right) by faith apart from the works of the law.' So Paul can now come to his important conclusion. And that is that a man is accepte...

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• Romans 3:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 3:27 .—Where is then the glorying? Such is the most literal and most correct rendering of the clause. Almost tantamount to the expression, Where is then their glorying? Ro...

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• Romans 3:28 - Scofield Reference Notes

  Justification Justification, Summary: Justification and righteousness are inseparably united in Scripture by the fact that the same word (Greek, "dikaios", means "righteous"; Greek, "dikaio...

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• Romans 3:28 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Romans 3:28 I. What was the point which lay at the root of St. Paul's whole argument? It was this: whether obedience to the ordinances of the Jewish law could be deemed necessary to salvation, whe...

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• Romans 3:28 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Romans 3:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Romans 3:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. Boastfulness--Jewish and Christian I. Boastfulness was a Jewish national characteristic of a peculiar species, for it took the form of religious conceit...

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• Romans 3:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Romans 3:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Justification by Faith. The righteousness of God revealed:

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• Romans 3:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 6:11 ; Acts 13:38 ; Acts 13:39 ; Galatians 2:16 ; Galatians 3:11-14 ; Galatians 3:24 ; Galatians 3:8 ; John 3:14-18 ; John 5:24 ; John 6:40 ; Philippians 3:9 ; Romans 3:20-2...

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• Romans 3:28 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Law and Grace Romans 3:19-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The meaning and scope of the Law. Law is a word filled with glory, but wholly foreign to Grace. Law is the measure of the holy requirements o...

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• Romans 3:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  We conclude then that a man is justified by faith — And even by this, not as it is a work, but as it receives Christ; and, consequently, has something essentially different from all our works whats...

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