Romans 3:2
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
- KJV
- Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
- WEB
- Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
- ASV
- Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
- DARBY
- Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.
- BLB
- Much in every way. For first indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
- ÅB
- Mye på alle måter; først og fremst det at Guds ord ble betrodd dem.
- OTB
- Mye på alle måter! Først og fremst er de blitt betrodd Guds ord.
- B1930
- Meget i alle måter; først og fremst det at Guds ord blev dem betrodd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Read in contextActs 7:38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Read in contextPsalms 147:19–20
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:13–14
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
Read in contextHebrews 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Read in context1 Peter 4:11
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:11–12
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
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