Word of 2024 - “We all like sheep have gone astray”

Rom 3:1-18

1. What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

2 Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.

3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar.

As it is written:
“That You may be justified in Your words,
And may overcome when You are judged.”

5 ¶ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?

7 ¶ For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

8 And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.

(Ps. 14:1-3; 53:1-4 )

9 ¶ What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

10 ¶ As it is written:
“There is none righteous, no, not one;

11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.

12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”

13 “Their throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;

“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;

17 And the way of peace they have not known.”

18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Every one of them has turned aside;
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.