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This is the seventh lesson (20 minutes) in our series, Romans A-Z.  There is some overlap with the previous podcast, is it ended with 3:10-18. Here we return to 3:10-18 for some deeper interpretive spadework, then complete the chapter. Some passages referred to in this podcast (not all--sorry!) are Genesis 19; Judges 19; Psalms 10-12; Job 28:18; Romans 7:12, 16, 21; 1 Timothy 1:8. The Greek word I cited was nomos -- the usual word for law, though some versions render it "principle" in v.27, perhaps because the translators are uncomfortable with Paul's positive allusions to law.

After these three chapters on sin (Romans 1-3), the foundation will have been laid for Paul's key chapters on justification by faith (Romans 4-5).

Suggested for memory: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:23-24).