Romans 3:19
But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.
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In The King James Version
In Context
18There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9He will preserve the feet of his holy ones, and the impious will be silenced in darkness. For no man will prevail by his own strength.
Job 9:2Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.
Ezekiel 16:63So may you remember and be confounded. And it will no longer be for you to open your mouth, because of your shame, when I will have been pacified toward you over all that you have done, says the Lord God.”
John 8:9But upon hearing this, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, with the woman standing in front of him.
John 15:25But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: ‘For they hated me without cause.’
Romans 2:1For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge.
Matthew Henry on Romans 3:2-19
The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art… Read the whole commentary →