Romans 33RomansAll have sinnedUnlocked Dynamic Bible

Unlocked Dynamic BibleBerean Standard Bible

1. God Remains Faithful

2. 1UDBSomeone might say then, "If that is true, then it appears that there is no advantage in being Jewish over not being Jewish, and being circumcised does not benefit people."BSBBSB: What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
3. 2UDBBut I tell you that being Jews has many benefits; first of all, because it was to their ancestors because it was to their ancestors that God spoke the words that show who he is."BSBBSB: Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
4. 3UDBDoes the faithlessness of the Jews mean that God will not bless as he promised that he would?BSBBSB: What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
5. 4UDBNo, it certainly does not mean that! God always does what he has promised, even though people do not. King David wrote about this: "So everyone must acknowledge that what you have said about them is true, and that you will always win the case when anyone accuses you of doing wrong."BSBBSB: Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
6. 5UDBSo if God did not bless us because we were wicked, can we say that he acted unfairly? That he was wrong to punish us out of anger? (I am speaking as ordinary humans speak.)BSBBSB: But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
7. 6UDBWe should certainly not conclude that God should not judge, because if God did not judge, it could not possibly be right for him to judge the world!BSBBSB: Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
8. 7UDBBut someone might answer, "The fact that God truly keeps his promises becomes very clear because, for example, I told a lie and the result is that people praise God because he has mercy! So God should no longer say that I should be punished on account of my having sinned, since people are praising him because of it!BSBBSB: However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
9. 8UDBIf what you, Paul, say is true, then we might as well do evil things in order that good things like that will result!" Some people speak evil about me because they accuse me of speaking like this. God will punish people who say such things about me, and they will deserve for him to punish them!BSBBSB: Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

10. There Is No One Righteous

    (Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Isaiah 59:1–17)

11. 9UDBShall we conclude that God will treat us Jews more favorably and will treat the Gentiles less favorably? We can certainly not conclude that! The Jews and also the Gentiles have sinned and so they deserve for God to punish them.BSBBSB: What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
12. 10UDBThe following words that are written in the scriptures support this: "No person is righteous. There is not even one righteous person!BSBBSB: As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
13. 11UDBThere is no one who understands how to live properly. There is no one who seeks to know God!BSBBSB: There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
14. 12UDBAbsolutely everyone has turned away from God. God considers them depraved. There is no one who acts righteously; no, there is not even one!BSBBSB: All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
15. 13UDBWhat people say is foul, like the smell that comes from a grave that has been opened. By what people say, they deceive people. By what they say they injure people, just like the poison of snakes injures people.BSBBSB: “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
16. 14UDBThey are continually cursing others and saying cruel things.BSBBSB: “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
17. 15UDBThey go quickly to murder people.BSBBSB: “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
18. 16UDBWherever they go, they ruin everything and make people miserable.BSBBSB: ruin and misery lie in their wake,
19. 17UDBThey have not known how to live peacefully with other people.BSBBSB: and the way of peace they have not known.”
20. 18UDBThey absolutely refuse to honor God!"BSBBSB: “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
21. 19UDBWe know that whatever these laws command, they are for the ones who are required to obey them. This means that no one is able to say anything contrary when God demands an answer for having sinned.BSBBSB: Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
22. 20UDBIt is not because people have done the things that God's laws require that God will erase the record of their sins, because no one has done those things completely. In fact, the result of our knowing God's laws is that we know clearly that we have sinned.BSBBSB: Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

23. Righteousness through Faith in Christ

    (Philippians 3:1–11)

24. 21UDBBut God has shown that when he declares us right with him, it does not depend on our obeying the law that he gave Moses. This was written about in the law and by the prophets.BSBBSB: But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
25. 22UDBGod erases the record of our sins because we trust in what Jesus Christ has done for us. God does this for every person who trusts in Christ. There is no difference.BSBBSB: And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
26. 23UDBAll people have done evil, and everyone has failed to accomplish the glorious goals that God set for them.BSBBSB: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
27. 24UDBOur record of sins has been erased by his acting kindly to forgive our sins, without our doing anything to earn it. Christ Jesus accomplished this by redeeming us.BSBBSB: and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
28. 25UDBGod showed that Christ, by shedding his blood for us, made it so we could come to God. The forgiveness he bought for us by his death becomes our forgiveness when we put our trust in what he did. The sacrifice of Christ shows that God acted in a just manner. Otherwise, one might not have thought he was just, because he did not punish us for the sins we had committed before.BSBBSB: God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
29. 26UDBBut God was just because he appointed Christ to die in our place. By doing that, he now shows that he is just, and he shows that he is justly able to erase the record of sins for everyone who trusts in Jesus.BSBBSB: He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
30. 27UDBWhy, then should we boast about how good we are? There is no reason to boast. Are we forgiven because we obey the law of God? Certainly not, we all have committed sins. But we can boast about God's gift of faith, and by that gift we trust in God who forgives all our sins.BSBBSB: Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
31. 28UDBSo it is clear that God makes someone right with himself if that person trusts in Christ—not if that person obeys the law.BSBBSB: For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
32. 29UDBYou who are Jews certainly should not think that you are the only ones whom God will accept! You certainly should realize that he will also accept Gentiles. Of course he will accept GentilesBSBBSB: Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
33. 30UDBbecause, as you firmly believe, there is only one God. It is this same God who will make Jews, who have been circumcised, to be right with God because they trust in Christ; and it is also God who will make Gentiles right with God, even those who have not been circumcised, because they also trust in Christ.BSBBSB: since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
34. 31UDBIf you say that God makes us right with himself because we trust in Christ, does that mean that the law is now useless? Certainly not. Instead, that law is truly valid.BSBBSB: Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

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