The Skeptics Annotated Bible (898 page)

12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but
the doers of the law shall be justified.

(2.13)
“The doers of the law shall be justified.”
304 Is Salvation by faith alone?

14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

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Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

(2.21a)
“Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?”
Practice what you preach.

(2.21b)
“Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?”
91 Is it OK to steal?

22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but
if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

(2.25) “If thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.” If you are circumcised and you break the law, your foreskin will grow back.

26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

3
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.

3 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.

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

(3.5) “Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)” Paul asks the very good question: “Is there unrighteousness who taketh vengeance [upon innocent people]” The obvious answer to the question is, yes. Paul then quickly adds, “I speak as a man.” What else could he speak as? A donkey or a god, perhaps?

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
.

(3.8)
“Whose damnation is just.”
Those who slander (or criticize?) Paul are damned by God.

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;

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

(3.10)
“There is none righteous, no, not one.”
35 Has there ever been a righteous person?

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.

(3.12)
“There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
298 Does anyone ever do anything good?