Romans 3:16-4:17 NIV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 3:9-20

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 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 mentioned that he had impeached both Jews and Gentiles of being under sin, adduces documentary evidence of the legitimacy of his impeachment (Wordsworth).Romans 3:19.—By the “law” here expositors understand the written revelation as a whole. That every month may be stopped.—Phraseology borrowed from the custom of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 3:9-20

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 that all men, left to themselves, will go very far astray from righteousness. But it may be said, ail men were not left to themselves. God interposed with a holy and awful law. He took one race under His own moral education. He taught them carefully the way of duty, and did what was possible to fence... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 3:10-20

DISCOURSE: 1830THE EXTENT OF MAN’S DEPRAVITYRomans 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 are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is un open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 3:1-31

Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Romans 3 .Paul has just told the Jews that having the law does not justify a person. It is the keeping of the law that justifies one. That uncircumcision really has no value in just the ritual itself. Circumcision has no value; it is the circumcision of the heart, spiritual circumcision that God really counts.Therefore, if a person is really walking after the Spirit, though he may not have had the physical rite of circumcision, still God counts what is in his... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 3:1-31

The first part of this chapter, as far as the twentieth verse, belongs to the two preseding chapters, and confirms, by the words of David, the deplorable state of fallen man. Romans 3:1-2 . What advantage hath the jew? St. Paul was aware of the warm exclamations of his nation against the doctrine of the preseding chapter, that he had superseded the peculiar calling of Abraham, and all the glory it had conferred on the Israelites. The chief advantage was in making them the guardians of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 3:9-20

Romans 3:9-20What then?Are we better than they? No … they are all under sin. Nominal Christians compared with heathen1. Have much advantage every way (Romans 3:2).2. Are no better.3. Are all alike under sin. (J. Lyth, D. D.)Man under sin, inasmuch as--I. He is under the imputation of sin. And whose sin? Adam’s; for he had been placed by his Maker in the situation of head and representative of all his descendants. And because he rendered himself guilty, therefore we, being in him and identified... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 3:16

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: Ver. 16. They mind nothing but mischief. ] read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 3:16

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:10 - destroy the city 1 Samuel 23:23 - I will search Psalms 10:5 - His Isaiah 57:21 - General Isaiah 59:7 - wasting read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:1-20

2. Condition of the Jewish Race, Romans 2:17 to Romans 3:20 . The case of the Jew (17-24) with the written law is essentially parallel with that of the Gentile with the unwritten law, 12-15. Yet the apostle treats with a more careful deference. By a series of interrogations, more delicate yet more forcible than affirmations, he exhibits the wide discrepancies between their boasting of the law and their persistent breaking it. Gradually and carefully he approaches the conclusion that the... read more