Romans 3:2

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Summary

Romans 3:2

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Much

Romans 3:3

Romans 11:1

Because

Committed

The oracles

General references

Exodus 25:16

Isaiah 40:21

Bible References

Much

For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Because

and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

For what great nation is there that hath God near to them as Jehovah our God is in everything we call upon him for?

And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.

But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.

Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

And we have the prophetic word made surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until the day dawn and the morning star arise in your hearts;

And I fell before his feet to do him homage. And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God. For the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

Committed

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.

but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

The oracles

(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)

Thy word is exceeding pure, and thy servant loveth it.

However, I will declare unto thee that which is set down in the scripture of truth; and there is not one that sheweth himself strong with me against these, but Michael your prince.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

If any one speak as oracles of God; if any one minister as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

knowing this first, that the scope of no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

And he said to me, These words are faithful and true; and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to shew to his bondmen the things which must soon come to pass.

General references

And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony that I shall give thee.

do ye not know? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?