If Romans one through eight is read and understood by Christians, then the rest of the Bible can be understood. Most people tend to ignore this book because it seems to be very hard to understand. But the reason it seems difficult to comprehend is not because of how the Apostle Paul wrote it, but because it contains so much of the doctrine of the LORD as opposed to teaching about the Christian life. Therefore, it is one of the more important books to read and study. In this chapter the Apostle Paul is again writing about the Jews and about the Law of God. He once again corrects the doctrine prevalent today in most mainstream, organized evangelical establishment churches that the Jews are God’s chosen and special people. He teaches that all people are equal in the sight of God, that all people are sinners, and that all people through following the Gospel can be children of God. Race is not the deciding factor for the LORD regarding who is saved and who is not. So there is no difference between Gentile and Jew. But he teaches that the Jews had/have an advantage over the Gentiles in that they first were given the Law, the Mosaic law, the promises, a specific land, a house of worship, the Ark of the Covenant, and in that respect they can boast. In time, the Gentiles also were given these things when they converted to following the LORD. Remember that the Jews were always a mixed multitude and never a pure race of people. So Gentiles in the Old Testament days converted to the worship of the LORD and Gentiles are listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. But what happens to Jews who reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ and refuse the New Covenant, choosing instead to remain under the law? This chapter reveals this answer.
Verses 1-2 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Circumcision is a Jewish ritual and identifier. Circumcision is synonymous with Judaism. Originally, only the Hebrew people and then the Jews practiced circumcision. This ritual separated them from the pagan peoples around them. The Apostle Paul asks two questions: what advantage have the Jews over the Gentiles and is there any profit to the Jews for being circumcised over the Gentiles who were not circumcised? He answers by stating that the Jews have a definite advantage to being circumcised and therefore being Jewish. However, their advantage is not that they are a special, chosen race of people. Their advantage is in that the oracles of God were given to them first. The Gentiles later received the same oracles, but the Jews received them first. The Greek word translated as “oracles” is “logion” and it means the words or utterances of God and the contents of the Mosaic law. In other words, God spoke to the Hebrew people through the Prophet Moses and gave the Law and the statutes. This was both an honor and a blessing that the other nations did not have.
Application: People tend to read these first two verses as proof that the Jews are a special and chosen people, but fail to read the rest of the chapter. Anyone can build a doctrine around a few verses taken out of context. But text taken out of context is pretext.
Just a note about circumcision. Circumcision in the Old Testament was not the procedure done today on helpless little baby boys. The foreskin was simply slit, not totally removed. Studies being done today are indicating that the act of circumcision has a negative and harmful emotional effect on babies and many parents are choosing not to circumcise their baby boys.
Verses 3-4 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 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.
The Apostle Paul asks more questions for the Gentile Roman Christians to ponder. He asks what happened if some of the Jews didn’t believe? Did their unbelief make the faith of God cease? In other words did the Jew’s unbelief change or alter God or His Word in anyway. Did the unbelief of some Jews alter the belief of those Jews who did embrace the oracles of God? The answer was “no”. God is sovereign and depends on no man or woman for His will to be accomplished. What God says is truth and truth cannot be altered. All will be judged by the Word of God. Plain and simple.
Application: The Apostle Paul states emphatically that God is true and every man is a liar. What exactly does that mean? Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 So to deny anything that God’s Word says makes one a liar. To disagree with anything in the King James Bible, the only real Bible in the English language as it is not copyrighted, makes one a liar. To claim that there are other ways to get to Heaven when Jesus clearly stated that there was only one way and that was through Him makes one a liar. To deny the necessity of baptism in Jesus’ name makes one a liar when Scripture clearly teaches that baptism is necessary to be saved and to have sins remitted and washed away. To believe there are three persons in one God when the Scripture clearly teaches that God is one God makes one a liar. To teach and preach and embrace Scofield’s doctrine of a rapture and a thousand year reign when Scripture does not teach either makes one a liar. To believe and teach that the Jews are a chosen people who can do no wrong when the entire book of Daniel predicted the end of the nation Israel and which history supports happened in 70 A.D. when the Jews were disbursed from Judea into various parts of the World never to be a nation of people again makes one a liar. As can be seen, most mainstream organized evangelical establishment churches are full of liars both in leadership roles and in the pews. What happens to liars according to Revelations 21:8? “But the fearful, the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” It is therefore absolutely essential for those calling themselves Christian to know the Bible, to not read into it that which is not there, and to accept all of it whether agreeing with it or not. Salvation and eternity in Heaven depends on it.
Verses 5-8 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 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? 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.
The Apostle Paul asks more questions in order to get his teaching across to the Roman Christians but he makes it clear that he is asking the questions as a man and not as a Christian man. So the question paraphrased is, “If man’s unrighteousness makes God righteous or look better because of it, would that not make God unrighteous for getting angry and punishing man’s unrighteousness as He is benefiting from it?” Here the reader needs to understand that this doctrine of doing evil so that good may come was being taught by the non-Christian Jews of the Apostle Paul’s day and is still taught today. But the Apostle Paul clears this wrong doctrine up by simply asking how will God judge the world if He needs man’s unrighteousness for some benefit. Just judgment cannot condemn sin if the one doing the judging receives a benefit from the sin. Only a righteous and just God can judge righteously and judge based on truth.
Application: In October on the day of Atonement Jews gather to confess their sins. Most people think this is admirable because they think the Jews are confessing to one another the sins of the past. However, this is not the case. They gather and confess the sins they intend to commit in the coming year. Catholic priests expect their parishioners to sin and tell them that sinning is going to happen, but all can be fixed by just coming to confession and putting money in the box. It is not uncommon to hear congregants in various denominational churches state, “I am a sinner saved by grace.” If that is the case, then the congregant was never saved in the first place. It is not possible to be a Christian and a sinner at the same time. Period. When true conversion occurs, the LORD writes His Law in the new Christian’s heart. This means that the desire to sin goes away and the Christian no longer wants to engage in the sins of the past. Jesus told the woman caught in adultery to “go and sin no more”, not “if you continue to sin just come back to me and confess it and all will be well.” The Church of Jesus Christ is to be pure and holy. “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:27
Verse 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;
Should the Gentile Christians think of themselves as better than the Jews? Are they better because they have believed and have faith in the LORD Jesus Christ? The Apostle Paul again confirms that there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles and therefore both can be saved from sin, death and Hell, and both can remain in their sins and end up in Hell. So, of course, Gentile Christians are not superior to Jews or to anyone else.
Application: In the Apostle Paul’s day the Jews that rejected Jesus Christ and simply relied on their Jewishness to save them believed they were superior to all other people in the world. Nothing has changed in the Jews’ thinking as today they still feel they are superior. Why? Because they received the Law and the ordinances as recorded by the Prophet Moses along with various promises from God. Today the real god of the Jews is intelligence as they believe the Gentiles are too dumb to rule themselves and so the Jews have infiltrated all governments, schools, legal institutions, and of course banks. They truly believe that God promised them the ruler-ship of the whole world and so their plan that has been formed for hundreds of years is to form a one-world government in which they rule and reign. Their other god is money, hence their ownership of central banks worldwide and of major banking houses and money exchanges all of which are used to finance their goal of ruling the world. And the root of all their endeavors is pride and the belief that they are superior to all others. So again, Christians of any race cannot believe they are superior to others because of their faith and obedience to the Gospel. That prideful attitude will keep them out of Heaven. However, they do have an advantage over the Jews in that they have the Holy Ghost/Spirit given to them by promise to guide and protect them in this earthly life and they have the promise of eternal life in Heaven because Jesus Christ paid the price for their sins and so their sins are not just forgiven, but they are remitted or paid for in full.
Verses 10-12 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
The Apostle Paul is quoting from Psalm 14 and Psalm 53. “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, (Jews and Gentiles) to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Psalm 14:1-3 (Parenthesis mine) “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Psalm 53:1-3
Application: The children of men means all children regardless of gender, race, nationality, or language spoken. The natural condition of mankind is one of sin. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9 Any attempt at righteousness by the power of the flesh is futile. “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.” Isaiah 64:6 So the natural condition of mankind is one of filthiness. And the carnal or natural man does not seek God which is why this can be stated in verse eleven and the two Psalms above. It is God who seeks men. It is God who chooses men. Men do not choose God. “I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.” Isaiah 65:1
Verses 13-14 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
A sepulchre is a place for the burial and storing of the bones of dead men and women. There is no light or life in a sepulchre. So the metaphor here is that unrepentant Jews and Gentiles are taking in to themselves death and they are full of spiritual uncleanness. They use their tongues to deceive others and cause harm and/or death. An asp is a small venomous serpent whose bite is usually fatal. These people are serving Satan and nothing good or righteous comes out of their mouth. Jesus in His encounters with the religious Jewish leaders of the day had several things to say about these leaders and about sepulchres. “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, of all uncleanness.” Matthew 23:29 “Woe unto you for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers, for they indeed killed them, and ye build them sepulchres.” Luke 11:47-48 Jesus also had something to say to the scribes and Pharisees about snakes. “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” Matthew 23:33
Application: Although the verses above can be applied to Gentiles as well as Jews, a study of Jewish history will show that those calling themselves Jews but who are not true descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but are false Jews who originated in Khazaria in 740A.D., have consistently caused harm to the people of other nations who are Gentile. And since the Apostle Paul has been speaking about Jews in this chapter, it makes sense that these verses and the following verses apply to these Jews perfectly. Jesus said in Revelation 2:9, “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” And then in Revelation 3:9 when speaking to the Church in Philadelphia, Jesus said, “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie, behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.” Most of the Jews today are the Ashkenazi Jews whose genealogy goes back to the Khazars. Historically it is known that these Khazar Jews spread throughout Europe and created mischief. From 1012 through 1891 the Khazarian or Ashkenazi Jews were expelled from over forty seven countries or major cities. England, France, Hungary, Belgium, Austria, Lithuania, Portugal, Italy, and Spain are just a few of the countries who expelled the Jews at one time or another. So who are the real Jews? They are referred to as the Sephardic Jews, some of whom can actually trace their blood line through DNA testing back to ancient Israel.
Verses 15-18 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Application: How have the Jews shed blood and caused destruction and misery? First and foremost they shed blood because they killed the prophets of God and the LORD Jesus Christ. “For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God and are contrary to all men.” 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 Historically, because of their plan for world domination, they have both started and then funded wars which have resulted in millions of lost lives, both of soldiers and of civilians. The recent destruction of Gaza and the murder of its civilians is a stark reminder and verification of the truth of verse fifteen above.
The Jews through the Rothschild family established central banks in many countries which resulted in those countries’ money being systematically stolen resulting in the average people becoming slaves to their governments through taxation causing financial misery. In 1815 A.D. Nathan Mayer Rothschild is credited with stating “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” The Federal Reserve in the USA is a Rothschild central bank. President Jackson (1829-1837) was successful in removing the first Rothschild central bank called the Second Bank of the United States by vetoing Congress’s bill to renew the bank’s charter. So an assassination attempt was made on his life on January 30th, 1835 which President Jackson credited to the Rothschilds. When Andrew Jackson died the inscription on his tombstone read, “I Killed The Bank.” Another Rothschild central bank in the USA was not successful until 1913 when then President Woodrow Wilson was blackmailed by Jews because of an affair. All the economic woes of the world are a result of Jewish or Rothschild control of the monies of the world. All of the wars and conflicts in the world which have and are causing destruction and misery can be placed at the feet of the Rothschild dynasty and the Zionist Jews. Please remember that these Zionist Jews are not Hebrew descendants of the patriarchs but are Khazars and therefore have nothing to do with ancient Jewish history or Jewish bloodlines.
The Jews control of the world’s money supply allowed them to start wars and finance both sides of the wars causing untold human suffering and death and providing them with financial gain as they loaned money to the warring governments and then extracted interest on the loans whose repayment was guaranteed by the governments of the countries involved in the conflict. This funding of both sides in various wars started with the war between Britain and France in 1815 where both Wellington’s army and Napoleon’s army were financed by Nathan Rothschild in England and Jacob Rothschild in France. The Rothschilds, through their control of the Bank of England, replaced gold money transactions with a system of paper debits and credits which is the banking system of today. The Jews were behind the Opium Wars in China in 1839 which was orchestrated to protect Rothschild interests in opium sales. They were also the architects of Communism with the publishing in 1848 of “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx, an Ashkenazi Jew whose real name was Moses Mordechai Levy. From the American Civil War to WW1 and WW11 to the wars in the Middle East and the genocide in Gaza, Jewish money can be found to be involved. As the Apostle Paul so accurately and prophetically wrote in the verses above, “And the way of peace have they not known.” And because the Jews believe they are a special race and therefore are entitled to rule the world with their New World Order, they have no need for God and “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Verses 19-20 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. 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.
The purpose of the Law of God and the Mosaic law was to show people their sins. No one could keep the law. Only Jesus Christ kept the law perfectly and, through His shed blood at Calvary, people who obey the Gospel are no longer under the Law of God or the Mosaic law but are under the Law of Grace. Christians become new people at conversion and baptism and God writes His Law on their hearts so that they no longer desire sin. So Christians will not be judged by the Law but by the grace of God that is given to them through faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to the Gospel. However, non-Christians and religious Jews will be judged by the Law that they cannot keep because they have rejected Jesus Christ and the salvation He offers through His shed blood and they have continued to live under the Law which will condemn them. So at the judgement at the end of time no unbeliever will have an excuse for their sins and they will be pronounced guilty by God Almighty. No one can justify himself/herself by trying to keep a law and by good works. Only those people who are in Christ Jesus and who have maintained their walk with Him while in the flesh shall be justified before the LORD.
Verses 21-23 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 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: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
The “now” or time frame the Apostle Paul is speaking about is the time that started with the coming of Christ Jesus. The Old Testament with its Covenant was replaced with the New Testament and a new Covenant. Under the old Covenant, God’s promises were conditional: if you do this, God will do that. Under the new Covenant, God’s promises were declarative: I will do this for you. So now God’s chosen people, the Christians, are made righteous by the righteousness of Jesus Christ and not by observing rules, regulations, statutes, rituals, and so forth. This was something the prophets of old looked for and never found in their lifetime. And where does this righteousness come from? From faith. Whose faith? Jesus’ faith, not men’s faith. Notice that the Apostle Paul wrote, “by faith of” and not “by faith in.” All words are important in the King James Bible. Faith is a gift from God. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.“ Ephesians 2:8 People have no faith on their own. It is the LORD who gives people the faith to believe in Him. Therefore it is the faith of Jesus Christ that is given “unto all and upon all them that believe.” The modern, fake Bible versions replace the word “of” with the word “in” which changes the meaning of the sentence so that it is people who get the glory and not the LORD. The righteousness of God knows no difference between Jew and Gentile as everyone without exception has sinned. So both Jew and Gentile if called out by the LORD can receive and understand the righteousness of God, and through the faith of Jesus receive salvation and eternal life in Heaven.
Verses 24-26 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 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; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
The Greek word translated as “justified” is “dikaioo” and it means to render righteous or to declare one to be just. To be just means to behave according to what is morally right and fair. So repentant sinners who obey the Gospel (repent, be baptized in Jesus’ name, be filled with the Holy Ghost/Spirit) are justified or declared to be in right standing with the LORD by His grace or loving-kindness through and because of the payment Christ Jesus made for sin by the shedding of His blood on the cross. It is through the blood of Jesus that full payment was made for sin. So Christian believers are seen by the LORD as righteous and are therefore justified.
Application: The hymn written in 1865 by Elvina Hall states simply what the Apostle Paul is teaching in the above verses. “Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow.”
Verses 27-31 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3)
No one calling themselves a Christian can boast as it is only by the faith of Jesus Christ that they have been called and chosen for salvation and eternal life. Without His calling and choosing they would be still under the Law which they cannot keep and therefore condemned to Hell. All Gentiles and people calling themselves Jews who have rejected the free gift of faith from Jesus Christ and rejected the salvation wrought by the shedding of His blood are, while in the flesh, the walking dead and will be judged by the Law and not by the grace of God, and sentenced to Hell and the Lake of Fire on judgement day.