Romans 3:25

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

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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

24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:17You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

Psalms 22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

Psalms 50:6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

Psalms 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

John 6:47Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

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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