Romans 3:15-17

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 3:1-18

I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it; but divine truths must be cleared from cavil. Object. 1. If Jew and Gentile stand so much upon the same level before God, what advantage then hath the Jew? Hath not God often spoken with a great deal of respect for the Jews, as a non-such people (Deut. 33:29), a holy nation, a peculiar treasure, the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 3:9-18

3:9-18 What then? Are we Jews out ahead? By no means. For we have already charged all Jews and Greeks with being under the power of sin, as it stands written: "There is none righteous, no not one. There is no man of understanding. There is none who seeks the Lord. All have swerved out of the way, and all together have gone bad. There is none whose acts are good, not one single one. Their throat is an open tomb. They practise fraud with their tongues. The poison of asps is under their lips.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 3:15

Their feet are swift to shed blood. The sins of the heart and mouth are before described, and now the sins of action are taken notice of; for "the feet" are the instruments of motion and action: and when these are said to be "swift to shed blood", it denotes the readiness and eagerness of men, to murder innocent creatures; which shows the dreadful malice and hatred that is in them. The words are cited from Isaiah 59:7 , and seem to point at the times of Manasseh, who shed so much innocent... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 3:16

Destruction and misery are in their ways. This passage also is to be found in Isaiah 59:7 , and may be understood either actively thus: all the ways they take, and methods they pursue, are to make their fellow creatures miserable, to ruin and destroy them; or passively, that by their sinful ways and vicious course of life, they themselves are brought to destruction and misery: the way they are walking in is, "the broad way, that leadeth to destruction", Matthew 7:13 ; the end of it, what... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 3:17

And the way of peace have they not known. This is a citation front Isaiah 59:8 , and expresses the ignorance of mankind, with regard to true peace, and the way unto it: men are naturally ignorant of the way of peace with God; of the first step which God took towards it; of the council and covenant of peace, in which the scheme of it was drawn, and the method fixed; of Christ the peacemaker, and of the way in which he has made it; and of the Gospel, which reveals and publishes it. They are... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:15

Their feet are swift to shed blood - They make use of every means in their power to destroy the reputation and lives of the innocent. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:16

Destruction and misery are in their ways - destruction is their work, and Misery to themselves and to the objects of their malice is the consequence of their impious and murderous conduct. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:17

And the way of peace have they not known - They neither have peace in themselves, nor do they suffer others to live in quiet: they are brooders and fomenters of discord. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:16

Verse 16 16.Very striking is the sentence that is added from Isaiah, Ruin and misery are in all their ways; (102) for it is a representation of ferociousness above measure barbarous, which produces solitude and waste by destroying every thing wherever it prevails: it is the same as the description which Pliny gives ofDomitian. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:17

Verse 17 17.It follows, The way of peace they have not known: they are so habituated to plunders, acts of violence and wrong, to savageness and cruelty, that they know not how to act kindly and courteously. read more

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