Romans 3:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 25:32
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Romans 2:25-29
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. …
Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-18)

I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it; but divine truths must be cleared from cavil. Object. 1. If Jew and Gentile stand so much upon the same level before God, what advantage then hath the Jew? Hath not God often spoken with a great deal of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ro 3:1-8. Jewish Objections Answered. 1-2. What advantage then hath the Jew?--that is, “If the final judgment will turn solely on the state of the heart, and this may be as good in the Gentile without, as in the Jew within, the sacred enclosure of God’s covenant, what better are we Jews for all our advantages?” Answer: