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What will we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
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Commentators explain that Paul is using a powerful teaching method. He anticipates the natural human reaction to God's sovereign choice: the accusation of unfairness. By raising the question himself, "Is there unrighteousness with God?", Paul shows he understands the difficulty of this teaching and is ready to defend God's character.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What shall we say then? What conclusion shall we draw from these acknowledged facts, and from these positive declarations of Scripture?
Is there unrighteousness with God? (μη αδικια παρα τω θεωι?). Paul goes right to the heart of the problem. Μη expects a negative a…
19th Century
Anglican
Is there unrighteousness?—Again, as in Romans 3:5, the Apostle anticipates a possible objection. Does not this apparently…
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Baptist
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?
God forbid.
There is no unrighteousness in anything that…
God’s dealings with Jacob and Esau might be challenged as arbitrary, on the ground that Esau was the object of injustice. To demonstrate that this …
16th Century
Protestant
What then shall we say? etc. The flesh cannot hear of this wisdom of God without being instantly disturbed by numberless questions, and wi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What shall we say then ? &c.] A form of expression the apostle frequently uses, when he is about to introduce an obj…
Whatever God does, must be just. The way in which the holy, happy people of God differ from others, God's grace alone makes them differ. In this pr…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that by God’s choice one person is preferred to another—not based on works but on the grace of the one calling—the Apostle …
