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

“ For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? ”

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

  For what if some did not believe? - This is to be regarded as another objection of a Jew. “What then? or what follows? if it be admitted that some of the nation did not believe, does it not follo...

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• Romans 3:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For what if some did not (c) believe? shall their unbelief make the (d) faith of God without effect? (c) Break the covenant. (d) The faith that God gave.

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

  Jewish Protests Silenced. Romans 3:1 . What then, it is asked, is the advantage of being a Jew, etc.? Romans 3:2-4 . Much, Paul replies, in every way: to begin with, they were entrusted with...

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

  some . Greek. tines . App-124. did not believe . Greek. apisteo. See Acts 28:24 . shall . The question is introduced by me (App-105). unbelief . Greek. apistia. Occurs twelve times; fi...

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

  3. What indeed if some, etc. As before, while regarding the Jews as exulting in the naked sign, he allowed them no not even a spark of glory; so now, while considering the nature of the s...

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

  DISCOURSE: 1829 THE FOLLY OF UNBELIEF Romans 3:3-4 . What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a li...

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

  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? Jew. For what - τι γαρ, What then, if some did not believe, etc. If some of the Jewish nation have abused...

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

  For what if some did not believe? &c.— This and the following verse are generally understood as a continuation and explication of the Apostle's answer in the second verse; whereby the sense of...

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

  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? For what if some did not believe - or 'proved unfaithful.' It is the unbelief of the great body of...

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

  III. (1-8) Continuing the subject, but with a long digression in Romans 3:3 et seq. The Apostle asks, What is the real value of these apparent advantages? He is about to answer the question fu...

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

  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...

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

  God Faithful Though Men Be Faithless Romans 3:1-8 The Jewish people had a great treasure entrusted to them for the benefit of the whole world. This position as stewards for mankind conferred up...

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

  For what if some did not believe ?.... It is suggested, that though the Jews enjoyed such a privilege, some of them did not believe; which is an aggravation of their sin, that they should have such...

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• Romans 3:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? Ver. 3. The faith of God ] That is, his faithful promises, opposed to man's perfidy. Fides quia fit q...

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

  For what if some And they a considerable number, of those who once possessed these invaluable treasures; did not believe Them, or did not duly consider what they speculatively believed, and so re...

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

  The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. A. D.  58.  ...

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

  If some did not believe; if some did remain in infidelity, Acts 28:24 , if they would give no credit to the oracle, and to the promise of a Messiah. The faith of God; i.e. the truth and faithf...

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

  If This Be So What Advantage Is There In Being A Jew? (3:1-8). In a series of questions Paul now takes up the points just made, the claimed advantage of being a Jew ( Romans 2:17-20 ) and the clai...

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

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 3:1 . What advantage then hath the Jew? —Pre-eminence. Passage brings out the idea of surplus (Wordsworth). Romans 3:3 .—πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ—the faith of God—may perhaps be b...

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• Romans 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For what if some did not believe? Man’s unbelief and God’s faithfulness I. Man’s unbelief; its various forms; impenitence; scepticism. II. God’s faithfulness; His Word remains true; cannot f...

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

  Man's Guilt and God's Righteousness. The advantage of the Jew:

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• Romans 3:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 15:29 ; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:3 ; 2 Timothy 2:13 ; Hebrews 4:2 ; Hebrews 6:13-18 ; Isaiah 54:10 ; Isaiah 54:9 ; Isaiah 55:11 ; Isaiah 65:15 ; Isaiah 65:16 ; Jere...

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• Romans 3:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shall their unbelief disannul the faithfulness of God — Will he not still make good his promises to them that do believe?

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