Romans 3:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. ”

• Romans 3:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Is he the God ... - The Jews supposed that he was the God of their nation only, that they only were to be admitted to his favor. In these verses Paul showed that as all had alike sinned, Jews and...

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• Romans 3:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify (g) the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. (g) The circumcised.

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• Romans 3:30 - 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 3:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Seeing . Since. Greek. epeiper. Only here. it is one God . God is One, i.e. for both Jew and Gentile. Which shall . Who will.

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• Romans 3:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  30. Who shall justify, (127) etc. In saying that some are justified by faith, and some through faith, he seems to have indulged himself in varying his language, while he expresses the sa...

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• Romans 3:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Seeing it is one God - επιπερ εις ο θεος. This has been rendered, Seeing God is one. It howeve...

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• Romans 3:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Seeing it is one God, &c.— So that it is one God, the same eternal and unchangeable Jehovah, who will justify, &c. Mr. Locke would render it, seeing God is one; and suppose it an allu...

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• Romans 3:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Seeing [it is] one God which shall - or, 'one is the God who shall' Justify the circu...

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• Romans 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD ‘If so be that God is one.’ Romans 3:30 (R.V.) In these words the Revised Version has restored to us a text, an argument, and even a principle which had been conceal...

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• Romans 3:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Seeing it is one God ,.... God is one in nature and essence, though there are three persons in the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; whence it appears, that he that is the God of the Jews, is al...

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• Romans 3:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Ver. 30. And uncircumcision ] All by one way, lest he should seem not to be one, but aliu...

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• Romans 3:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Is he the God of the Jews only? He argues from the absurdity of such a supposition. Can it be imagined that a God of infinite love and mercy should limit and confine his favours to the little perve...

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• Romans 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That it may not be thought that God is variable in the action of justifying sinners, but that it might be known that he is one, i.e. unchangeable, he shows, that both the circumcised Jews and uncircu...

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• Romans 3:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘If so be that God is one, and he will reckon the circumcision as in the right by faith (out of faith), and the uncircumcision through faith.' And the grounds for his confident answer is that God is...

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• Romans 3:30 - 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 3:30 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Romans 3:1-2 . What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. The Jews of old had a...

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• Romans 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - 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 3:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Justification by Faith. The righteousness of God revealed:

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• Romans 3:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Colossians 2:10 ; Colossians 2:11 ; Galatians 2:14-16 ; Galatians 3:20 ; Galatians 3:28 ; Galatians 3:8 ; Galatians 5:6 ; Galatians 6:15 ; Philippians 3:3 ; Romans 10:12 ; Romans 10:13 ;...

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• Romans 3:30 - 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 3:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Seeing it is one God who — Shows mercy to both, and by the very same means.

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