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INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, nor concordances, nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

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Romans Chapter 3

As a Quick Aside: Always answer with Scripture when asked and there is one applicable

(Romans 3:1)
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
(Colossians 2:11)
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

(Romans 2:29)
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

(Romans 3:2)
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
(1 Kings 2:45)
And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.

(Isaiah 9:7)
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

The SCRIBES and the SCRIPTURES

The following meticulous procedures and methods were used for making copies of God's law (Torah). Those who performed the copying were permitted to use ONLY animal skins that were clean for writing. Additionally, the ink they used had to be prepared using a very special formula. The color of the ink had to be black. Before each time they wrote the name of God they were to completely wash both their writing instruments and themselves. Each word had to be read aloud before it was written down.

Additionally, every column written by one of the scribes had to have a minimum of 48 lines of text. They were not allowed to write columns that had 61 lines of text or more. Their work was generally reviewed within thirty days. If 3 or more pages required any corrections, the entire manuscript had to be rewritten. They had to count the number of letters, words, and so on of each manuscript they wrote. If just 2 letters touched each other the document they were working on was deemed invalid. Once completed the manuscripts could only be put in sacred places.

(Romans 3:3)
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
(Romans 3:4)
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
(Psalms 51:4)
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

(Job 40:8)
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

(Psalms 116:11)
I said in my haste, All men are liars.

(Romans 3:5)
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
(Romans 3:6)
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
(Romans 3:7)
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
(Romans 3:8)
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,)  Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
(Romans 3:9)
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
(Romans 3:10)
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
(Romans 3:11)
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
(Romans 3:12)
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
(Isaiah 64:6)
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

(Romans 3:13)
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(Romans 3:14)
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
(Hebrews 12:15)
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

(Romans 3:15)
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
(Romans 3:16)
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
(Romans 3:17)
And the way of peace have they not known:
(Isaiah 9:6)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

(Romans 3:18)
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
(Psalms 111:10)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

(Proverbs 9:10)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. (Romans 3:19)
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
(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.
(Galatians 3:24)
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

(Romans 3:21)
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
(Romans 3:22)
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

The Old and the New

(Romans 3:23)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
(Romans 3:24)
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
(Romans 3:25)
Whom 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;
PROPITIATION, n. propishia'shon.
  1. The act of appeasing wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
  2. In theology, the atonement or atoning sacrifice offered to God to assuage his wrath and render him propitious to sinners.
    Christ is the propitiation for the sins of men. Rom 3. 1 John 2.

FORBEARANCE, n.
  1. The act of avoiding, shunning or omitting; either the cessation or intermission of an act commenced, or a withholding from beginning an act.
    Liberty is the power of doing or forbearing an action, according as the doing or forbearance has a preference in the mind. The forbearance of sin is followed with satisfaction of mind.
  2. Command of temper; restraint of passions.
  3. The exercise of patience; long suffering; indulgence towards those who injure us; lenity; delay of resentment or punishment.
    Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long suffering? Rom 2.
(Romans 3:26)
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
(Romans 3:27)
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
(Romans 3:28)
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
(Romans 3:29)
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
(Romans 3:30)
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
(Romans 3:31)
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
ESTAB'LISH, v.t. [L. stabilio; Heb. to set, fix, establish.]
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