Romans 3:28

For we reckon that a man is acquitted and pronounced to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM by emunah (personal faith, trust), apart from depending on + 3:28 (supposed) zokheh-earning ma'asim of gezetz.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

In Context

27Where then is boasting? + 3:27 see Ro 4:2 It has been memayet (precluded, excluded). By what kind of gezetz? Of depending on [zokheh-earning] ma'asim? No, on the contrary, + 3:27 T.N. Ro 4:2 by the (debt). Torah of Emunah (the Law of Faith, that is, the Law understood in terms of emunah).

29Or is Hashem G-d of the Yehudim only? Is Hashem not also G-d of the Nations? Ken, of non-Jews, too,

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Cross References

John 3:14And as Moshe lifted up the nachash in the wilderness, + 3:14 Num 21:8-9 so it is necessary for there to be a hagbah (lifting up) of the Bar Enosh. + 3:14 Ps 22; Isa 53

John 6:40For this is the ratzon of Avi: that everyone seeing the Ben + 6:40 HaElohim Moshiach and believing in him may have Chayyei Olam, and on Yom HaAcharon I will raise him up.

Romans 3:20For 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).

Romans 4:5But to the man who does not “work” but has emunah and bitachon in the One who takes the impious man lacking chasidus and accounts him to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM (justified with G-d), such a man who does not “work” but has emunah (faith), such emunah is credited to him for TZEDAKAH + 4:5 Gn 15:6 (righteousness).

Romans 8:3For what the Gezetz was unable to do in that it was weak through the basar, + 8:3 fallen human nature under Chet Kadmon and without hitkhadshut renewal and regeneration by the Ruach Hakodesh G-d sent his own Zun fun der Oybershter + 8:3 Moshiach in the very demut (likeness) of the basar of sinful humanity and as a chattat + 8:3 2C 5:21 (sin offering, sin atoning sacrifice), and both pronounced and effected a sentence of death on HaChet baBasar (Sin in the Flesh, in the fallen old humanity),

Galatians 2:16Yet we have da'as that a man cannot be YITZDAK IM HASHEM + 2:16 Job 25:4 (be justified with G-d) by [depending on] the ma'asim of Gezetz (Law), but through emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. And we have come to have bitachon in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that we can be YITZDAK IM HASHEM + 2:16 Job 25:4 (be justified with G-d) by emunah in Moshiach and not by + 2:16 supposed zokheh merit of ma'asim, because by taryag mitzvot KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK + 2:16 Ps 143:2 (all living shall not be justified).

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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