God Remains Faithful
What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Gen 25:32Rom 2:25-29Ecc 6:11Ecc 6:8Heb 13:91Co 15:32Isa 1:11-15Mal 3:14 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words 1of God. Act 7:38Rom 9:4Neh 9:13-14Psa 147:19-201Co 9:171Pe 4:11Heb 5:122Pe 1:19-21
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? 2Ti 2:13Heb 4:2Rom 9:6Isa 55:11Tit 1:1-21Sa 15:292Th 1:3Num 23:19 Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: Psa 51:4Psa 116:11Gal 2:17Heb 6:18Deu 32:4Tit 1:2Jhn 3:33Job 36:3
“So that You may be proved right when You speak
and victorious when You judge.” 2
But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms. Rom 6:19Gal 3:151Co 9:8Rom 2:5Rom 9:18-20Deu 32:39-43Nam 1:2Rom 4:1 Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world? Gen 18:25Act 17:31Job 8:3Job 34:17-19Psa 50:6Psa 9:8Psa 96:13Psa 98:9 However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner? Rom 3:4Rom 9:19-20Act 13:27-292Ki 8:10-15Isa 10:6-7Mat 26:34Mat 26:69-751Ki 13:17-18 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved! Rom 6:1Rom 6:15Rom 5:20Rom 7:71Pe 3:16-17Jud 1:4Mat 5:11
There Is No One Righteous
(Psalms 14:1–7; Psalms 53:1–6; Isaiah 59:1–17)
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. Gal 3:22Rom 6:15Isa 65:5Rom 11:32Rom 3:22-23Rom 3:191Co 14:151Co 4:7 As it is written: Psa 53:1-3Psa 14:1-3Rom 3:231Jn 1:8-10Job 15:14Job 25:4Mrk 7:21-22Mrk 10:18
“There is no one righteous,
not even one.
There is no one who understands, Psa 14:2-4Psa 53:2Tit 3:3Hos 4:6Rom 8:7Hos 7:10Isa 31:1Isa 55:6
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away, Psa 14:3Ecc 7:20Isa 59:8Isa 64:6Isa 53:6Ecc 7:291Pe 2:25Eph 2:3
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.” 3
“Their throats are open graves; Psa 5:9Psa 140:3Mat 23:27-28Jer 9:3-5Psa 57:4Ezk 13:7Isa 59:3Jas 3:5-8
their tongues practice deceit.” 4
“The venom of vipers is on their lips.” 5
“Their mouths are full Psa 10:7Psa 109:17-18Psa 59:12Jas 3:10
of cursing and bitterness.” 6
“Their feet are swift to shed blood; Isa 59:7-8Pro 1:16Pro 6:18
ruin and misery lie in their wake,
and the way of peace they have not known.” 7 Isa 59:8Rom 5:1Luk 1:79Mat 7:14Isa 57:21
“There is no fear of God Psa 36:1Pro 23:17Pro 16:6Pro 8:13Gen 20:11Luk 23:40Rev 19:5
before their eyes.” 8
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Gal 3:10Gal 3:22-23Rom 2:12-18Rom 3:9Gal 5:18Ezk 16:631Co 1:29Rom 3:23 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin. Gal 2:16Act 13:39Rom 3:28Gal 2:19Rom 4:15Rom 4:13Rom 5:20Rom 9:32
Righteousness through Faith in Christ
(Philippians 3:1–11)
But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. Act 10:43Jer 33:16Php 3:9Jer 23:5-6Gal 3:8Isa 51:8Isa 61:10Heb 10:1-14 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, Rom 10:12Gal 3:28Gal 2:16Rom 8:1Rom 5:1-11Col 3:11Gal 3:6-9Php 3:9 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Ecc 7:201Jn 1:8-10Gal 3:22Rom 3:9Rom 11:32Rom 3:191Th 2:122Th 2:14 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 1Pe 1:18-19Tit 3:5-7Col 1:14Eph 1:6-7Rom 5:9Tit 2:14Rom 4:161Co 1:30
God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice 9through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. Rom 3:23-241Pe 1:18-201Jn 4:101Jn 2:2Col 1:20-23Heb 9:14-22Rom 5:9Act 13:38-39 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus. Deu 32:4Rom 4:5Act 13:38-39Rom 3:30Isa 42:21Psa 85:10-11Rom 8:33Zep 3:5
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith. Rom 4:2Rom 2:231Co 1:29-31Eph 2:8-10Gal 3:22Rom 2:171Jn 5:11-12Rom 7:21 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Tit 3:7Gal 2:16Gal 3:24Gal 3:8Rom 3:26Jas 2:24Php 3:9Rom 4:5
Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, Col 3:11Eph 3:6Zec 2:11Gal 3:14Gal 3:25-29Rom 9:24-26Zec 8:20-23Jer 16:19 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. Gal 3:8Gal 3:20Php 3:3Col 2:10-11Gal 2:14-16Gal 5:6Gal 6:15Rom 4:11-12
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law. Gal 2:21Mat 5:17Rom 10:4Rom 13:8-101Co 9:21Rom 8:4Rom 7:7-14Gal 3:17-19