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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what tidings soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: All these passages, which Paul has put together in this dreadful mosaic, are taken from the Old Testament, so they apply to the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the way of peace have they not known: Quietness, happiness, and rest are not known by sinful men. They are not in the way of finding peace.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There is no fear of God before their eyes. The place referred to is Psalms 36:1, by the "fear of God", is not meant a fear of God's wrath, of hell and damnation; nor a fearful distrust of his presence, power, providence, and grace; much less an hypocritical fear; but a reverential affection for God, and which is peculiar to the children of God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is no fear of God before their eyes, How true is this terrible accusation, especially of this present age! Men seem to be casting off all fear of God. Anyone who reads human history will, I think, detect that the present condition of society in our country, religiously, is wonderfully like the condition of France before the great Revolution,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now we know that what things soever the law saith,.... By "the law" is meant, not the law of nature, nor the civil law of nations, nor the ceremonial law of the Jews, nor barely the five books of Moses, nor the book of Psalms, of the Prophets, or the writings of the whole Old Testament; but the moral law, as it appears in the whole word of God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. That is the true condition of the whole world, “guilty before God.” This is the right attitude for the whole human race, to stand with its finger on its lip, having nothing to say as to why it should not be condemned.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. The nineteenth-century world as well as the world of the first century, all the world, in all time, has “become guilty before God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. It is like a looking-glass that shows us our blots, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all, the world may become guilty before God. Every man by nature tries to open his mouth, and say the best he can for himself, but it is the object of God’s law to shut every man’s mouth; and when we come to that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. The law was given to the Jews, and the descriptions which it gives must be descriptions of the Jews “Therefore,” says Paul, “as Gentile mouths have been already stopped by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who ,are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. The law can convict and condemn, but it can never...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore by the deeds of the law,.... Hence it most clearly appears, that there can be no justification before God by the law, since it stops the mouths of men, and pronounces them guilty: by "the deeds of the law" are meant, works done in obedience to it, as performed by sinful men, which are very imperfect; not as performed by Adam in innocence...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. All the law does, is to show us how sinful we are. Paul has been quoting from the sacred Scriptures; and truly, they shed a lurid light upon the condition of human nature. The light can show us our sin; but it cannot take it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: Talk not, therefore, of righteousness by your own works. Dream not of meriting eternal life by any attempt to keep the law; for this is the declaration of God’s Holy Spirit, “By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: “ Rom_3:20. For by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin, All the law can do is to show us our sin. The law is a mirror, and looking in it you can see your spots; but you cannot wash in a looking-glass. If you want to be cleansed from your stains, you must go somewhere else. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh — Whether Jew or Gentile, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now — Since man is lost, since man is guilty, —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But now the righteousness of God,.... The apostle having proved that all men are unrighteous, and that no man can be justified in the sight of God by his obedience, either to the law of nature or of Moses, proceeds to give an account of that righteousness, which does justify before God; and so returns to his former subject, Romans 1:17, concerning...