Romans 3:4 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Romans 3:4

2 Much in every way! Chiefly because ^ato them were committed the oracles of God.

3 For what if ^asome did not believe? ^bWill their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

4 ^aCertainly not! Indeed, let ^bGod be true but ^cevery man a liar. As it is written:
^d“That You may be justified in Your words,
And may overcome when You are judged.”

5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? ^a(I speak as a man.)

6 Certainly not! For then ^ahow will God judge the world?

7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

8 And why not say, ^a“Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their¹ condemnation is just.

All Have Sinned

9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that ^athey are all under sin.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Romans 3:4

God forbid—literally, "Let it not be," that is, "Away with such a thought"—a favorite expression of our apostle, when he would not only repudiate a supposed consequence of his doctrine, but express his abhorrence of it. "The Scriptures do not authorize such a use of God's name as must have been common among the English translators of the Bible" [HODGE].

yea, let God be—held

true, and every man a liar—that is, even though it should follow from this that every man is a liar.

when thou art judged—so in Psalms 51:4, according to the Septuagint; but in the Hebrew and in our version, "when thou judgest." The general sentiment, however, is the same in both—that we are to vindicate the righteousness of God, at whatever expense to ourselves.

Romans 3:3-4

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.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 3:4:

Ecclesiastes 7:14
Isaiah 5:3
Romans 3:1-2
Romans 3:7-8
1 Corinthians 13:2
1 Timothy 3:16
Titus 1:2

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