– 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith.”
Ezekiel 18:9 “If he has walked in My statutes and kept My judgments faithfully—he is just; he shall surely live!” says the Lord GOD.
– 1:20 As much as I like the KJV and NKJV, the term Godhead should have never been used—He hates it. He likens it to Cerberus, the 3-headed dog guarding the gates of Hades in Greek mythology. The correct term, theiotēs, means divinity, divine nature, and the divine manifested.
– 1:23 “…and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.”
People wanted God to be more tangible so they could excuse the behavior they instinctively knew to be wrong by giving Him the bare minimum to appease Him. This is one of appealing things about the false gods—throw the virgin into the volcano to silence the god over it, so everyone else could go back to regular life.
– 1:31 …undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful…
I could not ignore the alliteration, 5 in a row.
– 2:13 …for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified…
– 2:25-29 — Circumcision of No Avail
– 3:30 …since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Leviticus 26:41 …and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt…
Deuteronomy 10:16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 9 25“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised—26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.”Acts 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.”
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
Colossians 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ…
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Galatians 5 2Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor [obligated] to keep the whole law. 4You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
11And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 12I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off [mutilate themselves]!
Let’s equate circumcision with ceremony or ceremonial law (Genesis 17:11, Exodus 4:24-25, Exodus 12:48, Joshua 5:2-7, Acts 7:8, Romans 4:11). Our focus should be on helping people and pleasing God through obedience. Paul is not saying, “(Jews) Don’t get circumcised,” but, “What good is a procedure when one is not blameless? Obedience—the fight against wrongdoing—has the greater value.” Also see 3:31
– 2:24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you [Jews],” as it is written.
Ezekiel 36:20 “When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name—when they said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.’”
Ezekiel 36:23 “And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.”
Isaiah 52:5 “Now therefore, what have I here,” says the LORD, “That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them Make them wail,” says the LORD, “And My name is blasphemed continually every day.”
Jeremiah 33:24 “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.”
Matthew 6:9 “Hallowed be your name,” should read, “God to make holy the name of You.” The Father, our King, has declared He will make His name holy to all.
– 3:4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may overcome when You are judged.”
Psalm 116:11 I said in my haste [shock], “All men are liars.”
Psalm 51:4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
Job 40:8 “Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?”
Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are a vapor [smoke, pointless], men of high degree are a lie. If they are weighed on the scales, they are altogether lighter than vapor [smoke, pointless].
– 3:10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one [Psalm 14:1, Psalm 53:1, Psalm 143:2, Micah 7:2].”
– 3:23 “…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”
Luke 18:19 and Mark 10:18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.”
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.
1 Kings 8:46 and 2 Chronicles 6:36 “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near.”
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”?
Job 14:4 “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!”
Job 15:14 “What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?”
Jeremiah 2:35 “Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me.’ Behold, I will plead My case against you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’”
Jeremiah 8:6 “I listened and heard, but they do not speak aright. No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his own course, As the horse rushes into the battle.”
– 3:11 There is none who understands. There is none who seeks after God.
Psalm 14:2 The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
Psalm 53:2 God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of mankind to see if there is anyone who understands, who seeks after God.
– Chapter 3 13Their throat is an open tomb [grave, sepulcher]. With their tongues they have practiced deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips. 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15“Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16Destruction and misery are in their ways.
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity [continuous sin]. Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Proverbs 6 16These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, 19a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.
– 3:30 “…since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.”
Every preposition concerning the work of Yah applies to believers: in, within, around, through, by, about, of, etc.
– 3:31 Do we then make void the law [His will, His instructions] through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law [His will, His instructions].
– Chapter 4 9Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Faith = loyalty + trust; when you obey His Instructions (Will) everyday, you are demonstrating faith.
– 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Also see Nehemiah 9:8, Romans 4:9. Romans 4:22, Galatians 3:6, James 2:23.
– 4:24 …but also for us. It shall be imputed [credited] to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead…
I have hated the word imputed even since I read a debate concerning the Lord’s imputation of justification. Reasoned to a logical conclusion feels so much better.
– 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
LOL! Unintended joke?
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
– 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments [weapons, tools] of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments [weapons, tools] of righteousness to God.
– 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
– 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members [limbs, working parts] as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members [limbs, working parts] as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
– 9:23 …and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory.
2 Timothy 2:21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:17 “…that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Hebrews 13:21 “…make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”
2 Chronicles 30:12 Also the hand of God was on Judah to give them singleness of heart to obey the command of the king and the leaders, at the word of the LORD.
– Paul quotes the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) a lot in this letter.
– 7:7-25 OK, this is one of those “Paul could have simplified this in 1-3 sentences, but no” type of deals. Me: “I thought I was alive, but then Torah kilt me—revealed my faults *shock, horror*—because of my flesh. Better I die now and revive (born again) under Christ than die forever.”
– 9:17 For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” [Exodus 9:16, Nehemiah 9:10]
– 9:22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made all for Himself, yes, even the wicked for the day of doom [evil, destruction].
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise You. With the remainder of wrath You shall gird [clothe, surround] Yourself.
Psalm 106:8 Nevertheless He saved [unrighteous Israel] for the sake of His name, so that He might make His power known.
He allows good (functional) to coexist with bad (dysfunctional) in order to teach and refine us, plus to show those striving in Him His Spirit at work on the Earth. Amen.
– 10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach)…
– 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Galatians 3:2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
– 10:19 But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.” [Deuteronomy 32:21]
– 11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
– 11:14 …if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
Acts 5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation…
Acts 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy [jealousy, hot with fury, zeal]; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.
Acts 17:5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious [jealous, hot with fury, zealous], took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
– 10:21 But to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Isaiah 65:2 I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts…
Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded…
Acts 4:30 “…by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
– Chapter 11 counters replacement theology (supersessionism), which declares the church has replaced Israel.
– 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
– 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Proverbs 24:29 Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”
1 Samuel 26:11 [David said,] “The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. But please, take now the spear and the jug of water that are by his head, and let us go.”
1 Samuel 24:12 [David said,] “Let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.”
Judges 11:27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me by fighting against me. May the LORD, the Judge, render judgment this day between the children of Israel and the people of Ammon.
1 Peter 3:9 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
– 12:19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.
Leviticus 19:18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
2 Samuel 22:48 and Psalm 18:47 It is God who avenges me and subdues the peoples [nations] under me…
Psalm 79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let there be known among the nations in our sight the avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.
Psalm 94:1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs— O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
Psalm 144:2 My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
Proverbs 20:22 Do not say, “I will recompense evil”; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.
Hebrews 10:30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the LORD. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.”
– 12:20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
Proverbs 25 21If your enemy is hungry, give him bread [food] to eat. And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. 22For so you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
2 Kings 6:22 But [Elisha] answered, “You shall not kill them. Would you kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword and your bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and his glory is to overlook a transgression.
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you…
Colossians 3:13 …bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
Also see Exodus 23:4, Exodus 23:5, Deuteronomy 22:1, Leviticus 6:3, 1 Samuel 24:17, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 16:32, Matthew 6:14, Luke 6:27, Luke 6:28, John 13:34.
– 13:7 (NIV) Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Matthew 17:27 Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.
Matthew 22:21 They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
And He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Also Mark 12:17 and Luke 20:25.
– Chapter 13 8Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
For the umpteenth time, Paul was not anti-Torah! Throughout Acts and his letters, he was trying to point out the natural progression of the Law to being changed by the Spirit and acting like it, Torah written in our hearts.
– Chapter 14 is so much like 1 Corinthians 8, parts of 9, and 10. Let’s summarize it: be respectful towards someone else’s walk with the Lord (in particular, the Jewish converts); worry about your own walk.
– Chapter 15, more than a few quotes from the Tanakh about the Gentiles (peoples, nations) coming to faith. Also see Proof Salvation Is for Gentiles, Too.
– 16:18 For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.
Isaiah 30:10 Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.”
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Three-Month Bible Reading Notes – Part 15 – Romans
– 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith.”
Ezekiel 18:9 “If he has walked in My statutes and kept My judgments faithfully—he is just; he shall surely live!” says the Lord GOD.
– 1:20 As much as I like the KJV and NKJV, the term Godhead should have never been used—He hates it. He likens it to Cerberus, the 3-headed dog guarding the gates of Hades in Greek mythology. The correct term, theiotēs, means divinity, divine nature, and the divine manifested.
– 1:23 “…and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.”
People wanted God to be more tangible so they could excuse the behavior they instinctively knew to be wrong by giving Him the bare minimum to appease Him. This is one of appealing things about the false gods—throw the virgin into the volcano to silence the god over it, so everyone else could go back to regular life.
– 1:31 …undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful…
I could not ignore the alliteration, 5 in a row.
– 2:13 …for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified…
– 2:25-29 — Circumcision of No Avail
– 3:30 …since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Leviticus 26:41 …and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt…
Deuteronomy 10:16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 9 25“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised—26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.”Acts 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.”
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
Colossians 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ…
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Galatians 5 2Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor [obligated] to keep the whole law. 4You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
11And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 12I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off [mutilate themselves]!
Let’s equate circumcision with ceremony or ceremonial law (Genesis 17:11, Exodus 4:24-25, Exodus 12:48, Joshua 5:2-7, Acts 7:8, Romans 4:11). Our focus should be on helping people and pleasing God through obedience. Paul is not saying, “(Jews) Don’t get circumcised,” but, “What good is a procedure when one is not blameless? Obedience—the fight against wrongdoing—has the greater value.” Also see 3:31
– 2:24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you [Jews],” as it is written.
Ezekiel 36:20 “When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name—when they said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.’”
Ezekiel 36:23 “And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.”
Isaiah 52:5 “Now therefore, what have I here,” says the LORD, “That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them Make them wail,” says the LORD, “And My name is blasphemed continually every day.”
Jeremiah 33:24 “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.”
Matthew 6:9 “Hallowed be your name,” should read, “God to make holy the name of You.” The Father, our King, has declared He will make His name holy to all.
– 3:4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may overcome when You are judged.”
Psalm 116:11 I said in my haste [shock], “All men are liars.”
Psalm 51:4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
Job 40:8 “Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?”
Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are a vapor [smoke, pointless], men of high degree are a lie. If they are weighed on the scales, they are altogether lighter than vapor [smoke, pointless].
– 3:10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one [Psalm 14:1, Psalm 53:1, Psalm 143:2, Micah 7:2].”
– 3:23 “…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”
Luke 18:19 and Mark 10:18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.”
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.
1 Kings 8:46 and 2 Chronicles 6:36 “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near.”
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”?
Job 14:4 “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!”
Job 15:14 “What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?”
Jeremiah 2:35 “Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me.’ Behold, I will plead My case against you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’”
Jeremiah 8:6 “I listened and heard, but they do not speak aright. No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his own course, As the horse rushes into the battle.”
– 3:11 There is none who understands. There is none who seeks after God.
Psalm 14:2 The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
Psalm 53:2 God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of mankind to see if there is anyone who understands, who seeks after God.
– Chapter 3 13Their throat is an open tomb [grave, sepulcher]. With their tongues they have practiced deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips. 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15“Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16Destruction and misery are in their ways.
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity [continuous sin]. Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Proverbs 6 16These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, 19a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.
– 3:30 “…since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.”
Every preposition concerning the work of Yah applies to believers: in, within, around, through, by, about, of, etc.
– 3:31 Do we then make void the law [His will, His instructions] through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law [His will, His instructions].
– Chapter 4 9Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Faith = loyalty + trust; when you obey His Instructions (Will) everyday, you are demonstrating faith.
– 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Also see Nehemiah 9:8, Romans 4:9. Romans 4:22, Galatians 3:6, James 2:23.
– 4:24 …but also for us. It shall be imputed [credited] to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead…
I have hated the word imputed even since I read a debate concerning the Lord’s imputation of justification. Reasoned to a logical conclusion feels so much better.
– 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
LOL! Unintended joke?
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
– 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments [weapons, tools] of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments [weapons, tools] of righteousness to God.
– 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
– 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members [limbs, working parts] as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members [limbs, working parts] as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
– 9:23 …and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory.
2 Timothy 2:21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:17 “…that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Hebrews 13:21 “…make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”
2 Chronicles 30:12 Also the hand of God was on Judah to give them singleness of heart to obey the command of the king and the leaders, at the word of the LORD.
– Paul quotes the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) a lot in this letter.
– 7:7-25 OK, this is one of those “Paul could have simplified this in 1-3 sentences, but no” type of deals. Me: “I thought I was alive, but then Torah kilt me—revealed my faults *shock, horror*—because of my flesh. Better I die now and revive (born again) under Christ than die forever.”
– 9:17 For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” [Exodus 9:16, Nehemiah 9:10]
– 9:22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made all for Himself, yes, even the wicked for the day of doom [evil, destruction].
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise You. With the remainder of wrath You shall gird [clothe, surround] Yourself.
Psalm 106:8 Nevertheless He saved [unrighteous Israel] for the sake of His name, so that He might make His power known.
He allows good (functional) to coexist with bad (dysfunctional) in order to teach and refine us, plus to show those striving in Him His Spirit at work on the Earth. Amen.
– 10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach)…
– 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Galatians 3:2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
– 10:19 But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.” [Deuteronomy 32:21]
– 11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
– 11:14 …if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
Acts 5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation…
Acts 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy [jealousy, hot with fury, zeal]; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.
Acts 17:5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious [jealous, hot with fury, zealous], took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
– 10:21 But to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Isaiah 65:2 I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts…
Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded…
Acts 4:30 “…by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
– Chapter 11 counters replacement theology (supersessionism), which declares the church has replaced Israel.
– 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
– 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Proverbs 24:29 Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”
1 Samuel 26:11 [David said,] “The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. But please, take now the spear and the jug of water that are by his head, and let us go.”
1 Samuel 24:12 [David said,] “Let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.”
Judges 11:27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me by fighting against me. May the LORD, the Judge, render judgment this day between the children of Israel and the people of Ammon.
1 Peter 3:9 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
– 12:19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.
Leviticus 19:18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
2 Samuel 22:48 and Psalm 18:47 It is God who avenges me and subdues the peoples [nations] under me…
Psalm 79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let there be known among the nations in our sight the avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.
Psalm 94:1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs— O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
Psalm 144:2 My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
Proverbs 20:22 Do not say, “I will recompense evil”; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.
Hebrews 10:30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the LORD. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.”
– 12:20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
Proverbs 25 21If your enemy is hungry, give him bread [food] to eat. And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. 22For so you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
2 Kings 6:22 But [Elisha] answered, “You shall not kill them. Would you kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword and your bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and his glory is to overlook a transgression.
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you…
Colossians 3:13 …bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
Also see Exodus 23:4, Exodus 23:5, Deuteronomy 22:1, Leviticus 6:3, 1 Samuel 24:17, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 16:32, Matthew 6:14, Luke 6:27, Luke 6:28, John 13:34.
– 13:7 (NIV) Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Matthew 17:27 Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.
Matthew 22:21 They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
And He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Also Mark 12:17 and Luke 20:25.
– Chapter 13 8Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
For the umpteenth time, Paul was not anti-Torah! Throughout Acts and his letters, he was trying to point out the natural progression of the Law to being changed by the Spirit and acting like it, Torah written in our hearts.
– Chapter 14 is so much like 1 Corinthians 8, parts of 9, and 10. Let’s summarize it: be respectful towards someone else’s walk with the Lord (in particular, the Jewish converts); worry about your own walk.
– Chapter 15, more than a few quotes from the Tanakh about the Gentiles (peoples, nations) coming to faith. Also see Proof Salvation Is for Gentiles, Too.
– 16:18 For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.
Isaiah 30:10 Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.”
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