25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; …
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; …
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-31)From all this Paul infers that it is in vain to look for justification by the works of the law, and that it is to be had only by faith, which is the point he has been all along proving, from Rom. 1:17; and which he lays down (Rom. 3:28) as the summary of his discourse, with a quod erat demonstrandum—which was to be demonstrated. We conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of th…
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