Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
What then? - This is another remark supposed to be made by a Jewish objector. "What follows? or are we to infer that we are better than others?
Are we better than they? - Are we Jews better than the Gentiles? Or rather, have we any preference, or advantage as to character and prospects, over the Gentiles? These questions refer only to the great point in debate, to wit, about justification before God. The apostle had admitted Romans 3:2 that the Jews had important advantages in some respects, but he now affirms that those advantages did not make a difference between them and the Gentiles about justification.
No, in no wise - Not at all. That is, the Jews have no preference or advantage over the Gentiles in regard to the subject of justification before God. They have failed to keep the Law; they are sinners; and if they are justified, it must be in the same way as the rest of the world.
We have before proved ... - Romans 1:21-32; 2.
Under sin - Sinners. Under the power and dominion of sin.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Romans 3:9:
Micah 7:19
Matthew 20:20-28
John 12:20
Romans 3:10
Romans 3:10
1 Corinthians 14:15
Galatians 3:22
1 John 1:10
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