5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?(I speak as a man)
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. …
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. …
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…
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