{"id":274,"date":"2007-12-12T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2022-03-12T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:06:09","slug":"romans-33-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Romans 3:3-4"},"content":{"rendered":"

3\u00a0<\/sup>For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: <\/span>\u201cThat You may be justified in Your words, a<\/span><\/span>nd may overcome when You are judged.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Unbelief \u2014 head knowledge, following the form without inner heart commitment.<\/h3>\n

Without effect = deprived of its intended\u00a0 use<\/h3>\n

Certainly not! = expression of abhorrence<\/h3>\n

The quotation is from Psalm 51:4 \u2014\u00a0Against You, You only, have I sinned, a<\/span>nd done this evil in Your sight\u2014t<\/span>hat You may be found just when You speak, a<\/span>nd blameless when You judge.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

What Paul is saying in these verses is that the Jews received the Law but didn’t believe, but …<\/h3>\n

1) There’s still an advantage to being a Jew.<\/h3>\n

2) God’s promises to the Jews still stand.<\/h3>\n

3) Unbelieving Jews will still be punished.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3\u00a0For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4\u00a0Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: \u201cThat You may be justified in Your … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}