ROMANS Study Guide

a. If God has given the Jews a special relation to himself and then

God turns and judges some of the Jews like a Gentile (pagan)

then God is not being faithful in his promise to Abraham and the

patriarchs and their decedents.

1) It was evidently the belief of the Jews that God would keep

every Jew from judgment because of His covenant with Abraham.

2) If one Jew does not gain salvation…then the covenant all falls

apart in their thinking.

b. Paul answers the argument with the simple fact God can never

lie… man may lie but never God.

1) Above all Paul stress es that we must hold up God’s character

2) In vs.5… Paul speaks of our “unrighteousness” (in this

case the sin of these unbelieving Jews and their coming under

judgment) … is God then unrighteous for bringing such unbelievers

to judgment? Absolutely not is Paul’s reply. Has this caused

God to break covenant…no! God is always just and right in his

actions with us.

3) This is why John the Baptist dealt directly with this false

understanding when the says: “Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not

to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these

stones to raise up children unto Abraham.” (Lk.3:8)

Rom 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.) Rom 3:6 Let it not be! For then how shall God judge the world? Rom 3:7 For if in my lie the truth has more abounded to His glory why am I still judged as a sinner? Rom 3:8 And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

Jewish Argument Two (vss.5-8)

a. Paul sees his figurative Jew striking back with the argument