Who's Faith is Paul talking about?

Justified because of Christ's Faithfulness.

First Reading

v20

This is the astounding fact which no man of his own accord would have thought even possible, that righteousness is to be had by sinners wholly apart from anything like law (the Mosaic law or any other code such as human ethics presents). Men always connect righteousness with law of some kind and conceive it as consisting of “works of law” (see v. 20), yet all that law is able to produce for sinners is “sin’s realization,” the conviction that all flesh, every mortal, is damned and lost.

Lenski, R. C. H. (1936). The interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (p. 246). Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern.

Lenski, R. C. H. (1936). The interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (p. 248). Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern.

v24 To get the verdict righteous from anything like law is hopeless, some other means must be used

Lenski, R. C. H. (1936). The interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (p. 248). Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern.

“freely” = δωρεάν =Gift

δωρεάν

Like in Ephesians 2:8

English Standard Version Chapter 2

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Even Faith is given to us. It’s incredible. We were dead in our sins and our trespasses when Christ died for us.

v31 Do we say that the law is now meaningless?

. This is the astounding fact which no man of his own accord would have thought even possible, that righteousness is to be had by sinners wholly apart from anything like law

Men always connect righteousness with law of some kind and conceive it as consisting of “works of law” (see v. 20), yet all that law is able to produce for sinners is “sin’s realization,” the conviction that all flesh, every mortal, is damned and lost.

Lenski, R. C. H. (1936). The interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (p. 246). Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern.

Lenski, R. C. H. (1936). The interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (p. 246). Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern

In every religion there are laws. Standards, ways to be righteous. this is what you must do.

This is what you must do to get to God.

English Standard Version Chapter 3

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” 12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

No. We establish it. This is what is all about. This is what it has always been about. All of the law and the profits were pointing to to Christ. All the way from Adam to John the Baptist the whole Old and New Testaments point to Jesus.

Paul goes on to say that even Abraham was saved by faith apart from works of the law.

At the very beginning of Abraham’s story in the bible it starts off, “God said to Abraham”. It doesn’t start, “Abraham was righteous” Later we are told that “Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness”

1John 2:2

The Interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Righteousness (Justification) through Faith, 3:21–31

To get the verdict righteous from anything like law is hopeless, some other means must be used.

The Interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Righteousness (Justification) through Faith, 3:21–31

This is the astounding fact which no man of his own accord would have thought even possible, that righteousness is to be had by sinners wholly apart from anything like law (the Mosaic law or any other code such as human ethics presents). Men always connect righteousness with law of some kind and conceive it as consisting of “works of law” (see v. 20), yet all that law is able to produce for sinners is “sin’s realization,” the conviction that all flesh, every mortal, is damned and lost.

English Standard Version Chapter 2

Christ Our Advocate

2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Paul goes on to say that even Abraham was saved by faith apart from works of the law.

At the very beginning of Abraham’s story in the bible it starts off, “God said to Abraham”. It doesn’t start, “Abraham was righteous” Later we are told that “Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness”

This is what you must do to get to God.

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English Standard Version Chapter 3

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” 12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.