Reading for August 21st

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, 18-20).
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 verse 13: Ps 5.9; 140.3.
In verse 14: Ps 10.7.
In verses 15-17: Isa 59.7-8; Prov 1.16.
In verse 18: Ps 36.1
In verse 20: Ps 143.2; Gal 2.16.
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