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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? If it so turns out, that even man’s sin makes the holiness of God the more illustrious, what shall we say? Rom_3:5. Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) Paul spoke as a mere carnal man might be supposed to speak. If ever we are obliged, for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(I speak as a man) God forbid.: for then how shall God judge the world? for if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Yet I shall be. If God shall overrule my sin to his own glory, that will make no difference to my responsibility. If I have lied, if I have done wrong in say way, I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? Whenever anybody insinuates that God is not just, Paul protests against such an idea. “No,” says he, “he must of necessity be just because he is God; for how...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
God forbid, for then how shall God judge the world?] חלילה, "far be it"; such a notion is detestable and abominable, nor can it be fairly deduced from what is asserted; for it is the unrighteousness of his own people, on whom he takes no vengeance personally, and not the unrighteousness of others, on whom he does take vengeance, which commends his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? God will judge the world; and he does judge the world even now. There are judgments against nations already executed, and recorded on the page of history. If God were unjust, how could he judge the world?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For if the truth of God,.... The "truth of God" is the same with "the righteousness of God", Romans 3:5, and means his faithfulness; of which it is hypothetically said, it hath more abounded; or has been more illustrated, through my lie to his glory: nothing is more opposite to truth than a lie; a lie of itself can never be of any advantage to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? If God has even turned the opposition of evil men to the establishment of his truth, as he has often done; why, then, are men punished for it? These are deep, dark questions, which come out of the proud heart of man, and Paul ventures to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 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. No Christian man ever did say, “Let us do evil that good may come.” If anybody else ever does...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And not rather, as we be slanderously reported,.... These are the apostle's own words, in answer to the objector he represented; and it is as if he should say, why do not you go on? why do you stop here? "and not rather" say, as we are evil spoken of, and our doctrine is blasphemed: and as some affirm; ignorantly and audaciously enough: that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. We never said, we never even thought, that we might do evil that good should come; nay, if all the good in the world could come of a single evil action, we have no right to do it. We must never do evil with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. If any man dares to say that, “Since God turns even evil into good, and by the forgiveness of sin brings glory to himself, ‘Let us do evil that good may come,’” he is wrestling truth to his own destruction,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. What 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; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What then? are we better than they?.... The apostle returns to what he was treating of in the beginning of the chapter, and suggests, that though the Jew has the advantage of the Gentile, with respect to some external privileges, yet not with regard to their state and condition God-ward, and as in his sight; "are we [Jews] better than they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are under sin; as it is written. Paul had already proved in the Epistle that both Jews and Gentiles were guilty before God. Now he quotes a set of texts from Israel’s own holy Books, to show the universal depravity of men. Notice how he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What then? are we better than they? Are Jews better than Gentiles? Or, are Gentiles better than Jews? Rom_3:9. No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; Nobody can read the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and follow it by reading the second, without seeing how completely Paul has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What 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; Read the earlier chapters of this Epistle, chapters that are enough to make the heart sick to read them, and to make the head ache with the memory of them, and when you have read them, you will say that Paul has proved...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What then? are we better than they? The first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans contains so horrible an account of the manners of the Gentiles, the heathen of Paul’s day, that it is one of the most painful chapters in Scripture to read. Not long ago, one of our missionaries, out in China, was attacked concerning the Bible on this very ground....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentile, that they are all under sin; as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: Then he selects passages out of different parts of Scripture to show what man is by nature.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What 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; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. The several passages cited here, and in some following verses, are taken out of the Psalms and Isaiah; and are brought to prove, not only that the Jews are no better than the Gentiles, being equally corrupt and depraved as they; but also to show the corrupt state and condition of mankind in...