Romans 3:21-3:31

The Miraculous Provision

Over the centuries, many well meaning but misguided people have substituted ceremony for true worship of God. We see it everywhere today. People get so caught up in rules, regulations and accepted duties that they forget that salvation has nothing to do with works, and everything to do with faith in our savior. That is a central theme in Paul's letter to the Romans, and we will once again be assured today that our salvation was paid for on the cross by Jesus Christ, and to believe anything else is to diminish what Christ did, and in fact, render it meaningless.

  1. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
  2. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
  3. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
  4. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
  5. 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;
  6. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
  7. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
  8. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
  9. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
  10. Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
  11. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.