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The Value of Jewish Privilege
Romans 3:1-8
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Then what advantage has the Jew? What is the value of being circumcised?
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Much in every way! In the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God.
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If some of them were unfaithful, so what? Does their faithlessness cancel God’s faithfulness?
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Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! — as the Tanakh says,
“so that you, God, may be proved right in your words
and win the verdict when you are put on trial.”
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Now if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what should we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict his anger on us? (I am speaking here the way people commonly do.)
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Heaven forbid! Else, how could God judge the world?
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“But,” you say, “if, through my lie, God’s truth is enhanced and brings him greater glory, why am I still judged merely for being a sinner?”
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Indeed! Why not say (as some people slander us by claiming we do say), “Let us do evil, so that good may come of it”? Against them the judgment is a just one!
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