Romans 3:9

(e.) And so the Jews are no better than the Gentiles, their own Old Testament being witness CONCLUSION, ALL, UNDER LAW, CONDEMNED, Romans 3:9-20 .

9. What then? The Jew now makes his last desperate effort. Are we Jews, then, any better at all than Gentiles? In advantages and benefits received (Romans 3:1-2) the answer is yes; but as to character and position the apostle returns an inexorable No, in no wise.

Proved Rather, charged. He now proceeds to the proof of the charge by quoting, either verbally or according to sense, a number of the Old Testament passages, showing that Jews are charged on that conclusive authority with a guilt equal to any that can be ascribed to Gentilism. The quotations are from Psalms and Isaiah. (See references.) The passages describe with dark touches the depravity of unregenerate Judaism. And as the first chapter has described that of unregenerate Gentilism, so both together furnish the biblical picture of what man is, apart from divine grace.