{"id":298418,"date":"2025-06-17T05:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/rom-321-26-translates-paraphrase-notes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T05:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:09:32","slug":"rom-321-26-translates-paraphrase-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=298418","title":{"rendered":"Rom 3:21-26 \u2013 Translates, Paraphrase, Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n

21<\/sup> But now, apart from the Torah, God\u2019s righteousness has been manifested, being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets. \u00a022 <\/sup>God\u2019s righteousness is unveiled through faith in I\u0113sous the Anointed One for all those who believe; for there is no partiality; 23<\/sup> because all have offended and are shorn of God\u2019s glory, 24<\/sup> being undeservedly righteoused by his unmerited favor through the manumission which is in the Anointed I\u0113sous; 25<\/sup> whom God publicly displayed as the seat of sacrifice and is appropriated through faith in his blood. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in God\u2019s clemency he left unpunished the offences previously performed; 26<\/sup> for the demonstration of his righteousness at the present time, so that God would be righteous and the righteouser of the one who has faith in I\u0113sous.<\/p>\n

Paraphrase<\/strong><\/p>\n

But that is not the end of the matter. Death and condemnation are not the last words. God has now revealed his saving justice, which comes as a shock and a surprise, because it is revealed entirely apart from the precepts and parameters of the Jewish Law, and yet the Law and the prophets paradoxically pointed ahead to it. This saving justice is displayed through faith in Messiah Jesus for everyone who believes. No distinctions or exceptions can be made because everyone has done evil things and have been shunned from the glory of God. And yet believers are \u2013 without respect to their deservedness or worth \u2013 declared to be righteous based on God\u2019s unmerited and unrepayable kindness as expressed in the redemption that comes through Messiah Jesus. He is the one who God presented as the atoning sacrifice of mercy to propitiate his wrath and to expiate our wrongdoing when we put our faith in the blood of Jesus\u2019 atoning death. In this way, God shows his justice by overlooking the sins that we had earlier committed, in his merciful patience he demonstrates his righteous character, and so proves himself to be righteous and to declare righteous those who have faith in Jesus.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The \u201cbut now\u201d (Gk. nuni de<\/em>) is not just logical, but also temporal, God has acted in the present to reveal his saving power in Jesus.<\/li>\n
  2. On \u201cGod\u2019s righteousness\u201d or \u201crighteousness of God,\u201d see 1.17.<\/li>\n
  3. Debate surrounds whether dia pistis I\u0113sous Christ<\/em> should be translated as \u201cthrough faith in Christ\u201d (e.g. NIV, NRSV, ESV) or the \u201cfaithfulness of Christ\u201d (NET, CEB). See similarly, Gal. 2.16, 20; 3.22; Eph 3.12; and Phil 3.9, plus discussion in Bird and Sprinkle, Faith of Jesus Christ<\/em>. Theologically speaking, the idea of being saved by the faithfulness\/obedience of Jesus is perfectly valid (e.g. Rom 5:19 and Phil 2:8). However, grammatically speaking, a genitive noun usually defines or restricts the head term so that \u201cChrist\u201d defines the manner or extent of \u201cfaith,\u201d it does not determine the subject of the action, which must be decided by context. In addition, given the context which majors on the theme of faith (Rom 3.22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30), and Paul\u2019s use of dia<\/em>\/ek <\/em>to indicate faith as the instrument for attaining salvation, a translation of \u201cthrough faith in Jesus Christ\u201d is far more likely.<\/li>\n
  4. Or <\/em>\u201cdeclared righteous by grace.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Gk. hilast\u0113rion<\/em> can refer to the place of atonement, the mercy seat on the lid of the ark of the covenant (Exod 25:22; Lev 16:2; Heb 9.5), or else refer to the concept of atonement as either expiation (removing sin) or propitiation (removing wrath).<\/li>\n
  6. The phrase \u201cin\/by his blood\u201d could modify either hilasterion <\/em>(i.e. \u201cpropitiated by his blood\u201d) or be the subject of pistis<\/em> (i.e. \u201cby faith in his blood\u201d).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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