Romans 3:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Revelation 19:10

Committed

The oracles

Revelation 22:6

Bible References

Much

For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their faithlessness render God's faithfulness worthless?

I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin.

Because

and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--being a man who receives instruction from the Law--

To them belongs recognition as God's sons, and they have His glorious Presence and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Temple service, and the ancient Promises.

"'They have Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; 'let them hear them.'

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to obtain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

And in the written word of prophecy we have something more permanent; to which you do well to pay attention--as to a lamp shining in a dimly-lighted place--until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he exclaimed, "Oh, do not do that. I am a fellow bondservant of yours and a fellow bondservant of your brethren who have borne testimony to Jesus. Worship God." Testimony to Jesus is the spirit which underlies Prophecy.

Committed

And if I preach willingly, I receive my wages; but if against my will, a stewardship has nevertheless been entrusted to me.

We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.

Indeed, when they saw that I was entrusted with the preaching of the Good News to the Gentiles as Peter had been with that to the Jews--

O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called 'knowledge';

The oracles

which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son,

This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.

and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to obtain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food.

If any one preaches, let it be as uttering God's truth; if any one renders a service to others, let it be in the strength which God supplies; so that in everything glory may be given to God in the name of Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the might to the Ages of the Ages. Amen.

But, above all, remember that no prophecy in Scripture will be found to have come from the prophet's own prompting;

And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the Prophets, sent His angel to make known to His servants the things which must soon happen.