Romans 3:25

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

In Context

24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

26He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:17And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Psalms 22:31They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.

Psalms 50:6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

Psalms 119:142Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.

John 6:47Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Matthew Henry on Romans 3:20-31

Justification by Faith; Christ a Propitiation. ( a. d. 58.) 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by… Read the whole commentary →

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