Romans 3: 27-31

(Romans 3: 27-31)

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

 

The Roman church, which was built spontaneously similar to the church of Antioch, was a mixture of Gentiles and Jews, like other early churches that had been established in other parts of the Roman Empire. There must have been a difference in perspective between Jewish believers who have a background of traditional Jewish beliefs and Gentile believers who have a religious background from the Greek culture because of cultural and religious differences.

 

Thus, Paul wrote in 1:16, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek". He pointed out the sins of the Gentile Saints in 1:18-2:16, and in 2:18-3:8 he pointed out the sins of the Jewish Saints who made the law and circumcision as religious privileges, and then he both In summary, in 3:9-18, he said that people of the world are only sinners in the sight of God. And in 3:19-20 he firmly stated, "Just because a man possesses the law, and because of the act of the law (good deed), does not admit that God is righteous, but the law convicts sin." And he said in 3:21-22, “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:, he explained how salvation works.

 

Paul once again referred to all humanity, including the Jewish saints, who not only possessed the law in consciousness of a special covenant relationship with God, but also proud of personal righteousness through the acts of the law, He says, "God is the same God for all men."
And it says that all people, Jews and Gentiles, should all be justified in the same way: ``Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law』

 

The tone of Paul, who has been sacrificing the law and emphasizing faith, that is, claiming that the law and faith are in opposition to each other, suddenly changes. The relationship between faith and the law is not an opposing concept, but a complementary relationship. In the meantime, it was thought that humans could come to God by performing the sacrifices set forth in the law and thoroughly executing the commandments. It shows that salvation through the law can no longer be achieved because everything has been accomplished through the redemption of Jesus Christ, which God previously spoke of through the prophets.

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