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But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
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A Human Objection
Paul is not expressing his own view but is voicing a common objection he likely faced. Commentators explain he's posing a hypothetical question from a human perspective: "If my sin ultimately highlights God's righteousness, how can He justly punish me?" Paul raises this flawed argument in order to dismantle it.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But if our unrighteousness. If our sin—the particular sin that had been specified in Romans 3:3 was unbelief. B…
What shall we say? (τ ερουμεν?). Rhetorical question, common with Paul as he surveys the argument.
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19th Century
Anglican
But if our unrighteousness.—A new and profound question suggests itself to the mind of the Apost…
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Baptist
(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…
The supposition that human wrong could serve to display the righteousness of God was probably suggested to Paul in his quoting of Ps 51. Is it not …
16th Century
Protestant
But if our unrighteousness, etc. Though this is a digression from the main subject, it was still necessary for the Apostle to int…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God , &c.] Hence it appears, that the unrighteousness of men…
The law could not save them in their sins, nor from their sins, yet it gave the Jews advantages for obtaining salvation. Their prescribed ordinance…
13th Century
Catholic
1. After showing that Judaism—which involved receiving the law and circumcision—is not sufficient for salvation without observing the law, h…
