Romans 3:8 ASV

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 St. Paul was aware of the warm exclamations of his nation against the doctrine of the preseding chapter, that he had superseded the peculiar calling of Abraham, and all the glory it had conferred on the Israelites.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 3:5-8

Romans 3:5-8But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Man’s sin and God’s righteousness1. Our unrighteousness may possibly commend the righteousness of God.2. This result is involuntary, not meritorious.3. Hence to suppose that sin is less punishable because good follows is a grievous error.4. To persist in sin that good may come, is positively blasphemous and wicked.5. Therefore God will righteously punish those who do so. (J. Lyth, D. D.)Man’s sin and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 3:8

Romans 3:8And not rather … Let us do evil that good may come. Doing evil that good may comeI. Almighty God can and often doth overrule evil actions to his own glory and cause bad means to conduce to a good end.1. This is sufficiently intimated in the beginning of this chapter, which gave occasion to the reflection made in the text. The Jews had been favoured with special advantages for the knowing the Messiah, yet they rejected Him to their ruin. But yet their sin illustrated God’s justice in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 3:8

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. Ver. 8. As we be slanderously reported ] So are the reformed Churches by the black mouthed Papists. See the Abatement of Popish Brags, by Alex. Cook, the Preface; Eudaemon Joannes against Casaubon, and Calvino-Turcismum, &c. Whose damnation is just ] In the year of grace 1552, a monk of Berlin in Germany, who in the pulpit charged St Paul with... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 3:8

we be: Matthew 5:11, 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Peter 3:17 Let us: Romans 5:20, Romans 6:1, Romans 6:15, Romans 7:7, Jude 1:4 Reciprocal: Genesis 19:8 - let Genesis 19:13 - Lord hath Genesis 27:24 - I am Genesis 27:35 - General Exodus 23:1 - shalt not Deuteronomy 25:11 - to deliver her husband Joshua 2:5 - the men went out Judges 16:7 - If they bind Judges 19:24 - them 1 Kings 15:19 - break thy league 2 Kings 10:18 - Jehu Nehemiah 6:6 - It is reported Jeremiah 40:16 - Thou shalt Malachi 3:5 - fear... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 3:8

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.Whose condemnation is just — The condemnation of all who either speak or act in this manner. So the apostle absolutely denies the lawfulness of " doing evil," any evil, "that good may come." 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

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:8

8. And not rather Before the words of this verse the apostle’s mind thinks a clause like this: And both my God forbid, (Romans 3:6,) and my earnest reasoning against this fearful fallacy, are rather the true view and not rather what would strictly follow) the heinous view that evil must be done to secure a good result. Slanderously reported In the great discussions raised by the new Christianity, both with Judaism and paganism, there would be colour for this slander. Each might claim... read more

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 3:1-31

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 3:5-8

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 3:8

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 3:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 3:8

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 3:8

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:8

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