{"id":717,"date":"2013-10-27T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realbiblestudy.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2013-10-27T20:56:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:56:21","slug":"daily-bible-nugget-63-romans-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Daily Bible Nugget #63, Romans 3:20"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

The Nugget:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Comment:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to see a contradiction in the Bible, here is one. Romans 3:20 states that by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if we look back to Romans 2:13 we read that “the doers of the law shall be justified.” I suspect that modern English translations of the Bible generally have not cleared up this seeming contradiction. That is the reason there is such a need for a new translation that carefully follows the Greek text, is translated with awareness of dispensational distinctions, that does not suppress the grammatical distinctions so unique to the Greek language and crucial for proper understanding of what the authors meant when the words of the New Testament were penned. No currently available English translation does all that. Young’s Literal Translation<\/em> comes the closest, but like the rest of our English translations, it falls short of presenting the salvation vocabulary given in the Greek text. All past and current English translations fail at this crucial point. But as a salvation memory verse, Romans 3:20 does make it clear that no one can be saved by keeping the law, including obeying the Ten Commandments. If we cannot get to heaven by being good, what must we do to get to heaven and have eternal life? The answer, in brief, is that we must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. But this language may well be almost meaningless to those immersed in contemporary culture. Probably the best way to overcome this gap in understanding is to become immersed in the Gospel of John, which was written to enable anyone to have eternal life by believing what it teaches. John asserts that he wrote his Gospel so that people would believe on the name of the Son of God, and that believing they would have eternal life. Even that language is obscure to the modern unchurched individual, but by reading the context of the Gospel of John, the meaning will become plain.<\/p>\n

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson\u2019s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible<\/em> on page 1277 for Romans 3:20.<\/p>\n

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/em> on page 1297 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Romans 3:20.<\/p>\n

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:<\/p>\n

Romans 3:20. Therefore by<\/strong>. ver. *28. Ro *2:13. 4:13. 6:14. 7:5, 9. 8:3. 9:32. Ac +*13:39. Ga 2:*16, 19. *3:10-13. *5:4. Ep **2:8, 9. T *3:5-7. Ja *2:9, 10. the deeds of the law<\/strong>. or, works of law. ver. +27. Ro 2:12. *4:2, 6, 15. Dt 27:26. shall no<\/strong>. Gr. not any. FS108E3, Ps +103:2. Ro 5:18. Ps *143:2. Lk 15:29. Ac +13:39. flesh<\/strong>. FS171E1, Ge +6:12. FS171Q6, Ge +6:12. Ge 6:7. Le 13:3. Dt 5:26. Jb *15:14-16. Lk +3:6. be justified<\/strong>. or, made righteous. The participle cannot stand for kai dikaiountai<\/em>: it explains or proves hesterountai<\/em> [come short] since they are being made righteous (Liddon). Even though the Jews were in the sphere of the Law, it was unable to make them righteous because under the Law the blood of Levitical animals could not take away sins (cf. He 10:4, 11). The Law could justify, but it could not make righteous (see Ro 2:13 and note) [Lavender NT, fn. l]. Ro 9:31. Dt 31:26. Jb 9:2, 3. *25:4. Ps 5:10. *130:3. **143:2. Is 59:6. Lk +3:6. 16:15. %**18:14. 1 C 4:4. Ja 2:20-26. in his sight. Jb *15:15. *25:5. for by the law<\/strong>. FS4, Ro +1:13. Ro 4:15. 5:13, 20. **7:7-9. Ps *19:8. Jn +*1:17. 5:45. 10:34. 12:34. 15:25. 1 C *14:21n. 15:56. Ga 2:19. 3:19, 21, *24. Ph 3:9. 2 T 1:9. He *7:19. 12:20. 1 J 3:4. knowledge<\/strong>. Gr. epign\u014dsis<\/em> (S#1922g). Precise or further knowledge, thorough acquaintance with; true knowledge (CB, Appendix 132.II.ii, p. 163). Ro 1:28. 5:20. 10:2. Ge 3:11. 2 K *22:13. 23:24. 2 Ch 34:19. Ne 8:9. 13:3. Mk 10:19. *12:34. Lk 18:20. Ac 24:25. Ep 1:17. 4:13. Ph 1:9. Col 1:9, +**10. 2:2 (acknowledgement). 3:10. 1 T **2:4. 2 T 2:25. 3:7. T 1:1. Phm 6. He **10:26. 2 P 1:2, 3, **8. **2:20. sin<\/strong>. Gr. hamartia<\/em> (S#266g). ver. 9. Ro 4:7, 8. 5:12, 13, 20, 21. 6:1, 2, 6, 7, 10-14, 16-18, 20, 22, **23. Ro 7:5, 7-9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 20, 23, 25. 8:2, 3, 10. 11:27. 14:23. Is 59:12. Mt *1:21. Jn 16:9. 1 C 15:56. 2 C 3:6. Ja **1:15. 2:9. **4:17. 5:15, 20. 1 J *1:7-9. **2:2. **3:4, 5, 8, 9. *4:10. +*5:16, 17.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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