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Allegory of Justice (1656)
Bernardino Mei (1612/15 - 1676)
Baroque Style
Private Collection
Image Source:Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In Romans 3, Paul notes that the Jews have many advantages, particularly that the oracles of God were committed to them. Though some were unfaithful to God, God was faithful to them. Though some were liars, God was true. So the unfaithfulness of some highlights the faithfulness of God. However, despite this positive effect on God's reputation, God still has the right to judge (1-8). But the Jews are not better off than the Gentiles, because all -- Jews and Gentiles -- are under sin. And no one is righteous. No one understands. No one seeks God. They have turned aside. They are worthless. No one does good. They are filled with sins of many kinds. The law makes them accountable to God. No one can be justified by the law. The Law gives the knowledge of sin (9-20). But faith in Jesus Christ gives us a righteousness which is apart from the law. Everyone has sinned. Justification is a gift through the redemption which Christ Jesus gives. The propitiation which is provided by Christ's blood is to be received by faith. God passed over former sins until Christ provided his blood propitiation (favor, appeasement, reconciliation, mercy-seat). So anyone, whether Jew or Gentile, is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law. This is in accord with the provisions of the Law (21-31).
[Sermons: William Still. Mark Dever. D A Carson. Eric Alexander. Various. ]
[Illustration: Today's painting shows the effect which justice has on people. They flee, as the figures in the background are doing. Paul's point in today's chapter is that God's justice is satisfied by Christ's sacrifice. Those who trust Christ have no reason to flee. They are at peace with God, and God is at peace with them. ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: ]
Romans 3:1-8: Romans 9:1-5; 2 Corinthians 3:7-11; 2 Corinthians 3:12-18; Philippians 3:2-11; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-12.
Romans 3:9-20: Galatians 2:15-21; Galatians 3:10-14. Galatians 3:21-25.
Romans 3:21-26: 1 Corinthians 4:6-7; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Galatians 3:21-25; Ephesians 2:1-10; Philippians 3:2-11; Colossians 1:21-23.
Romans 3:27-31: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; 2 Corinthians 10:13-18; Philippians 3:2-11.
NOTE: The parallels above are based in a very small part on my own research but principally on the following sources:
Fred O Francis and J. Paul Sampley, Pauline Parallels, Second Edition. (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1984).
Most of the material on Hebrews is from an online article titled Pauline parallels in Hebrews taken from Charles H. Welch and Stuart Allen Welch, Perfection Or Perdition? An Exposition Of The Epistle To The Hebrews, (London: Berean Publishing Trust, 1973). ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
Romans 3
1. Justification (Romans 1:1 - Romans 5:21) - 55 A.D. Corinth
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid [do not let it be]: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid [do not let it be]: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 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 God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid [do not let it be]: yea, we establish the law.
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