Romans 3:21-26

Faith alone pleases God! 

It is not about denominations it is about God’s love for all His creation in the person of Jesus the Christ.

Romans is a mighty leveler, for it declares that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. 

Since all are sinners, it comes as a delightful shock that “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. This is the Good News, which Paul so eloquently and systematically defends in this theological treatise addressed to the Romans. Romans is a masterful presentation of God’s plan of salvation for Jews and Gentiles. 

Paul wanted to exhort Jewish and Gentile believers to live in harmony. Paul contends that the Spirit of Jesus can motivate us to live responsible, Christlike lives.

Romans 3:21-26

²¹ But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, ²² even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, ²⁶ to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 

Galatians 3:22

Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 

Romans 4:4

Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 

Romans 4:16

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 

Ephesians 2:8

⁵ not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 

Titus 3:5

²⁸ just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” 

Matthew 20:28

⁶ who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, 

1 Timothy 2:6