Romans 3:1
What then is the advantage of the Jew? or what the benefit of circumcision?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
In Context
2Great, every way. In the first place, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:11Seeing there are many things which increase vanity, what advantage hath man [[from them]]?
Malachi 3:14Ye have said, “It is a vain thing to serve God”; And, “What profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, And that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
1 Corinthians 15:32If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, “let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”
Matthew Henry on Romans 3:1
The apostle, in this chapter, carries on his discourse concerning justification. He had already proved the guilt both of Gentiles and Jews. Now in this chapter, I. He answers some objections that might be made against what he had said about the Jews, ver. 1-8 . II. He asserts the guilt and corruption of mankind in common, both Jews and Gentiles, ver. 9-18 . III. He argues thence that justification must needs be by faith, and not by the law, which he gives several reasons for ( ver. 19 to the end ). The many… Read the whole commentary →