Romans 3:8 ASV

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Romans 3:5-8

God vindicated in every respect: v. 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.) v. 6. God forbid! For then how shall God judge the world? v. 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? v. 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... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Romans 3:1-20

Romans 3:1-201What advantage then hath [What, then, is the advantage of] the Jew? or what profit is there [what is the benefit] of circumcision? 2Much every way: chiefly, [First, indeed,]1 because that unto them were committed [they 3—i.e., the Jews—were entrusted with, ἐπιστεύθησαν] the oracles of God. For what [What, then,]2 if some did not believe [were faithless]? shall their unbelief [faithlessness, or, unfaithfulness] make the faith of God without effect4[destroy, or, nullify the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Romans 3:1-8

God Faithful Though Men Be Faithless Romans 3:1-8 The Jewish people had a great treasure entrusted to them for the benefit of the whole world. This position as stewards for mankind conferred upon them very special privileges, but also exposed them to searching discipline, if they should prove faithless. Some of these advantages are enumerated in Romans 9:4-5 . But our failures cannot cancel God’s faithfulness to His covenant promises, 2 Timothy 2:13 . We may always reckon confidently upon... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Romans 3:1-31

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 of all," meaning of supreme importance, "that they were entrusted with the oracles of God." Therein lay the supreme advantage of the Jew. Then arises a new question. If man's faith fails, will God be unfaithful? To this the apostle replied that is it impossible for God to be unfaithful. The... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:1-8

If This Be So What Advantage Is There In Being A Jew? (3:1-8). In a series of questions Paul now takes up the points just made, the claimed advantage of being a Jew (Romans 2:17-20) and the claimed advantage of circumcision (Romans 2:25-29). His reply is that both are true simply because it was to the Jews that God had entrusted the oracles of God. It was through those oracles that man could know righteousness. They had thus had the advantage of the given word of God, first through Moses and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:8

‘And why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” whose condemnation is just.’ Paul now makes clear that he has had enough of such nonsense. Why not, he asks, then say ‘Let us do evil that good may come?’ something that was self-evidently wrong. The condemnation of anyone who spoke like that or acted like that could only be right. We learn here also that people were actually claiming that that was what Paul taught. Paul does... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:1-8

Romans 3:1-Ruth : . Jewish Protests Silenced. Romans 3:1 . “ What then,” it is asked, “ is the advantage of being a Jew, etc.?” Romans 3:2-Numbers : . “ Much,” Paul replies, “ in every way: to begin with, they were entrusted with the oracles of God” (this implies a faith-relationship)—“ a trust not voided by the infidelity of some.” “ Some,” for numbers do not count; the heritage of faith is transmitted through “ the remnant” (see Romans 9:6-Ruth :, etc.).—“ Nay” (to use the language of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:8

The placing of these words makes them sound harshly, and consequently causeth obscurity. Critics make a great stir about them, some including them in a parenthesis, others affirming there is a transposition in them. They seem to be a refutation to the former cavil, and must be accommodated to that sense. It is as if the apostle should have said, If sinners deserve no punishment, because God reaps glory to himself by their sins; then that is a good proverb, or saying, which is in some men’s... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 3:1-8

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 3:1. What advantage then hath the Jew?—Pre-eminence. Passage brings out the idea of surplus (Wordsworth).Romans 3:3.—πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ—the faith of God—may perhaps be best explained by the assertion, God is faithful.Romans 3:4. God forbid: yea, let God be true, etc.—More proper is it that men should impute unfaithfulness to themselves than to God. God forbid—i.e., far be it. An idiomatic exclamation. The sense in which David used the Hebrew word “tsadak,” and in which his... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Romans 3:8

damnation i.e. condemnation. read more