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 did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Because

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

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

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

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Committed

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

The oracles

(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, 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 need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

General references

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

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?