Reading for September 28th

 Read Romans 3.1-20. In verses 1-8: Answering Jewish objections. In verse 2: Scripture contains the oracles of God, what God has spoken to Israel (Deut 4.7-8; Ps 147.15, 188-20). In verses 3-7: God's reliability is variously described as faithfulness, justice, truthfulness. In verse 4; One psalm finds humans unreliable (Ps 116.11), another regards God as an honest judge (Ps 51.4). In verse 8: This criticism is answered more fully in ch. 6. In verses 9-20: No one has the moral advantage. In verse 9: Jews and Greeks include everyone (1.16). In verses 10-18, Various biblical quotations are grouped together to show that all ... are under the power of sin. In verses 10-12: Eccl 7.20; Ps 14.1-3. In verses 13: Ps 5.9; 140.3. In verse 14: Ps 10.7. In verses 15-17Isa 59.7-8; Prov 1.16. In verse 18: Ps 36.1. In verse 20: Ps 143,2: Gal 2.16. Comments or Questions..