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Romans 3:3
Romans 3:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
- New International Version (NIV)What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?
- English Standard Version (ESV)What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
- New King James Version (NKJV)For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
Context of Romans 3:3
1What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision? 2Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God. For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect? 4Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment. 5But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.
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τί γὰρ εἰ ἠπίστησάν τινες; μὴ ἡ ἀπιστία αὐτῶν τὴν πίστιν τοῦ θεοῦ καταργήσει;Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Romans 3:3
- Romans 9:6Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;
- Romans 10:16But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?
- Romans 11:1I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.
- Hebrews 4:2For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.
- Romans 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God [are] not subject to repentance.
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good?
- 1 Samuel 15:29And also the Hope of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
- Isaiah 54:9For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me, since I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth: so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
- Isaiah 55:11so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall do that which I please, and it shall accomplish that for which I send it.
- Isaiah 65:15And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mine elect; for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and will call his servants by another name:
- Jeremiah 33:24Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
- Matthew 24:35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.
- 2 Timothy 2:13if we are unfaithful, he abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
- Hebrews 6:13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
- Psalms 84:7They go from strength to strength: [each one] will appear before God in Zion.
- John 1:16for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace.
Commentaries on Romans 3:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Jew. For what - , What then, if some did not believe, etc. If some of the Jewish nation have abused their privileges, and acted contrary to their obligations, shall their wickedness annul the Promise which God made to Abraham, that he would, by an everlasting covenant, be a God to him and to his seed after him? Genesis 17:7. Shall God, therefore, by stripping the Jews of their peculiar honor, as you intimate he will, falsify his promise to the nation…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For what if some did not believe? - This is to be regarded as another objection of a Jew. “What then? or what follows? if it be admitted that some of the nation did not believe, does it not follow that the faithfulness of God in his promises will fail?” The points of the objection are these: (1)The apostle had maintained that the nation was sinful Matthew 13:23; 2 Timothy 3:10; Hosea 2:20. Of none effect - Destroy it; or prevent him from fulfilling his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-20Paul waits to explain righteousness through faith (see 3:21) until he first teaches about the sinfulness of all people. Both non-Jews and Jews are equally under the power of sin (1:18–32; 2:1–3:8). Because of this, both groups are in the same situation before God. No one can gain God’s favor by their own actions or obedience (3:9–20). All people need God’s saving action, not their own efforts.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. For what if some did not believe?--It is the unbelief of the great body of the nation which the apostle points at; but as it sufficed for his argument to put the supposition thus gently, he uses this word "some" to soften prejudice. shall their unbelief make the faith of God--or, "faithfulness of God." of none effect?--"nullify," "invalidate" it.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Romans 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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