Romans 3:19 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

¹² So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less. ¹³ Then said the king to his servants, 'Take him hand and foot, and throw him outside, out into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

⁹ And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

³⁴ Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'? ³⁵ If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came — and scripture cannot be broken —

²⁵ It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.

²⁰ for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse.

¹ Therefore you are inexcusable, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for in judging another you condemn yourself; you, the judge, do the very same things yourself. ² 'We know the doom of God falls justly upon those who practise such vices.'

¹² All who sin outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be condemned by the Law. ¹³ For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted, ¹⁴ [Move vss 14,15 to follow vs 16] (When Gentiles who have no law obey instinctively the Law's requirements, they are a law to themselves, even though they have no law; ¹⁵ they exhibit the effect of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bears them witness, as their moral convictions accuse or it may be defend them.) ¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ. ¹⁷ If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God, ¹⁸ understanding his will, and with a sense of what is vital in religion; if you are instructed by the Law

² Much in every way. This to begin with — Jews were entrusted with the scriptures of God.

⁴ Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

⁹ Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin —

²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,

²⁹ that no person may boast in the sight of God.

²⁰ To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves — though I am not under the Law myself — to win over those under the Law; ²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law;

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

²² but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith. ²³ Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed;

⁵ to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship.

²¹ Tell me, you who are keen to be under the Law, will you not listen to the Law?

¹⁸ If you are under the sway of the Spirit, you are not under the Law.