Romans 3 Lawless guilt and saving faith

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the book of Romans in the Bible teaches. This message covers Romans 3, we are all guilty and can have saving faith.

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Romans 3:1-31 ( KJV ) ¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?  ²Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.  ³For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  ⁴God forbid: 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.  ⁵But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)  ⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?  ⁷For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  ⁸And 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.  ⁹What 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;  ¹⁰As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  ¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.  ¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  ¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:  ¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:  ¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood:  ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways:  ¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:  ¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹Now 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.  ²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.  ²¹But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;  ²²Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:  ²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  ²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  ²⁵Whom 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;  ²⁶To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.  ²⁷Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.  ²⁸Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  ²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:  ³⁰Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  ³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

John 8:28-32 ( KJV ) ²⁸Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.  ²⁹And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.  ³⁰As he spake these words, many believed on him. ³¹Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;  ³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 8:28-32 ( KJV ) ²⁸Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.  ²⁹And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.  ³⁰As he spake these words, many believed on him. ³¹Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;  ³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.