Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the Gezetz (Law) says, it says to those under the Gezetz, in order that every mouth might be stopped and kol HaOlam Hazeh become ashem (guilty) and liable to the Mishpat Hashem. + 3:19 Ps 1:5

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18There is no yirat Shomayim (fear of G-d) before their eyes. + 3:18 See Ps 13:1-3; 14:1-3; 5:9,10; 139:4; 140:3; 10:7; Isa 59:7-8; Ps 36:1; Prov 1:16; Ps 35:2

20For by + 3:20 Ro 2:17 [depending on] ma'asim of gezetz + 3:20 Ro 2:17; 4:2 shall KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK + 3:20 Ps 143:2 (all living not be justified), for through the gezetz + 3:20 Gn 2:16-17 (law) comes Da'as HaChet + 3:20 Gn 3:7 (knowledge of sin).

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:9He is shomer over the feet of His chasidim, 1 and the resha'im shall be silenced in choshech; 1 for by ko'ach shall no ish prevail. 1

Job 9:2I know it is indeed thus, 1 but how should yitzdak Enosh im El (Man be in the right, justified, before G-d)? 1

Ezekiel 16:63That thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I have made kapporah (atonement) + 16:63 i.e., when I am pacified, appeased toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith Adonoi Hashem.

John 8:9And the ones having heard were departing, one by one, beginning with the zekenim, and he was left alone with the isha standing before him.

John 15:25But this was that the dvar having been written in their Torah might be fulfilled, sone'ai chinom atzmu (They are many hating me without cause). + 15:25 Ps 69:4 [5]; Ps 35:19; 109:3

Romans 2:1For in that you pass judgment on the other, you condemn yourself; for you practice the very things on which you pass judgment.

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 →

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