Romeine 3 ’53 vertaling 1 WAT is dan die voordeel van die Jood? Of wat is die nut van die besnydenis? 2 Groot, in alle opsigte: ten eerste tog seker dat aan hulle die woorde van God toevertrou is. 3 Want wat maak dit as sommige ontrou geword het? Sal hulle ontrou miskien die getrouheid van God vernietig? 4 Nee, stellig nie! Maar God moet waaragtig wees en elke mens leuenagtig, soos geskrywe is: Sodat U geregverdig kan word in u woorde en oorwin as U gerig hou. 5 Maar as ons ongeregtigheid die geregtigheid van God bewys, wat sal ons sê? Is God wat die toorn oor ons bring, dan nie onregverdig nie? Ek spreek menslikerwys. 6 Nee, stellig nie! Want hoe sal God anders die wêreld oordeel? 7 Maar as die waarheid van God deur my leuen oorvloediger geword het tot sy heerlikheid, waarom word ek dan nog as sondaar geoordeel? 8 En moet ons nie liewer sê nie, soos ons belaster word en soos sommige beweer dat ons sê: Laat ons kwaad doen, sodat die goeie daaruit kan voortkom? Hulle veroordeling is regverdig. 9 WAT dan? Het ons enige voorrang? Hoegenaamd nie! Want ons het tevore al Jode sowel as Grieke beskuldig dat hulle almal onder die sonde is, 10 soos geskrywe is: Daar is niemand regverdig nie, selfs nie een nie. 11 Daar is niemand wat verstandig is nie, daar is niemand wat God soek nie. 12 Hulle het almal afgewyk, saam het hulle ontaard. Daar is niemand wat goed doen nie, daar is selfs nie een nie. 13 Hul keel is ’n oop graf, met hul tonge pleeg hulle bedrog, die gif van adders is onder hulle lippe. 14 Hulle mond is vol vervloeking en bitterheid. 15 Haastig is hulle voete om bloed te vergiet. 16 Verwoesting en ellende is in hulle paaie, 17 en die weg van vrede ken hulle nie. 18 Daar is geen vrees van God voor hulle oë nie. 19 Nou weet ons dat alles wat die wet sê, hy dit sê vir die wat onder die wet is, sodat elke mond gestop en die hele wêreld voor God doemwaardig kan wees; 20 aangesien uit die werke van die wet geen vlees voor Hom geregverdig sal word nie, want deur die wet is die kennis van sonde. 21 MAAR nou is die geregtigheid van God geopenbaar sonder die wet, terwyl die wet en die profete daarvan getuig, 22 die geregtigheid naamlik van God deur die geloof in Jesus Christus vir almal en oor almal wat glo, want daar is geen onderskeid nie; 23 want almal het gesondig en dit ontbreek hulle aan die heerlikheid van God, 24 en hulle word deur sy genade sonder verdienste geregverdig deur die verlossing wat in Christus Jesus is. 25 Hom het God voorgestel in sy bloed as ’n versoening deur die geloof, om sy geregtigheid te bewys deurdat Hy die sondes ongestraf laat bly het wat tevore gedoen is onder die verdraagsaamheid van God — 26 om sy geregtigheid te toon in die teenwoordige tyd, sodat Hy self regverdig kan wees en regverdig maak wie uit die geloof in Jesus is. 27 Waar is dan die roem? Dit is uitgesluit. Deur watter wet? Van die werke? Nee, maar deur die wet van die geloof. 28 Ons neem dus aan dat die mens geregverdig word deur die geloof sonder die werke van die wet. 29 Of behoort God net aan die Jode, en nie ook aan die heidene nie? Ja, ook aan die heidene, 30 aangesien dit inderdaad een God is wat die besnedenes sal regverdig uit die geloof en die onbesnedenes deur die geloof. 31 Maak ons dan die wet tot niet deur die geloof? Nee, stellig nie! Inteendeel, ons bevestig die wet. Romans 3 ‘NIV God’s Faithfulness 1 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God. 3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? 4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.” 5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?” 8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just! No One Is Righteous 9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” 13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.” 14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 ruin and misery mark their ways, 17 and the way of peace they do not know.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. Righteousness Through Faith 21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood —to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. 27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law. Romans 3 ‘MSG 1-2 So what difference does it make who’s a Jew and who isn’t, who has been trained in God’s ways and who hasn’t? As it turns out, it makes a lot of difference—but not the difference so many have assumed. 2-6 First, there’s the matter of being put in charge of writing down and caring for God’s revelation, these Holy Scriptures. So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn’t abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out His faithfulness? Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same: Your words stand fast and true; Rejection doesn’t faze you. But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God’s right doing, shouldn’t we be commended for helping out? Since our bad words don’t even make a dent in his good words, isn’t it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up. The answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn’t do the straightening? 7-8 It’s simply perverse to say, “If my lies serve to show off God’s truth all the more gloriously, why blame me? I’m doing God a favour.” Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, claiming that we go around saying, “The more evil we do, the more good God does, so let’s just do it!” That’s pure slander, as I’m sure you’ll agree. We’re All in the Same Sinking Boat 9-20 So where does that put us? Do we Jews get a better break than the others? Not really. Basically, all of us, whether insiders or outsiders, start out in identical conditions, which is to say that we all start out as sinners. Scripture leaves no doubt about it: There’s nobody living right, not even one, nobody who knows the score, nobody alert for God. They’ve all taken the wrong turn; they’ve all wandered down blind alleys. No one’s living right; I can’t find a single one. Their throats are gaping graves, their tongues slick as mudslides. Every word they speak is tinged with poison. They open their mouths and pollute the air. They race for the honour of sinner-of-the-year, litter the land with heartbreak and ruin, Don’t know the first thing about living with others. They never give God the time of day. This makes it clear, doesn’t it, that whatever is written in these Scriptures is not what God says about others but to us to whom these Scriptures were addressed in the first place! And it’s clear enough, isn’t it, that we’re sinners, every one of us, in the same sinking boat with everybody else? Our involvement with God’s revelation doesn’t put us right with God. What it does is force us to face our complicity in everyone else’s sin. God Has Set Things Right 21-24 But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened. The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ. 25-26 God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public—to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured. This is not only clear, but it’s now—this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness. 27-28 So where does that leave our proud Jewish insider claims and counterclaims? Cancelled? Yes, cancelled. What we’ve learned is this: God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does. We’ve finally figured it out. Our lives get in step with God and all others by letting him set the pace, not by proudly or anxiously trying to run the parade. 29-30 And where does that leave our proud Jewish claim of having a corner on God? Also cancelled. God is the God of outsider non-Jews as well as insider Jews. How could it be otherwise since there is only one God? God sets right all who welcome his action and enter into it, both those who follow our religious system and those who have never heard of our religion. 31 But by shifting our focus from what we do to what God does, don’t we cancel out all our careful keeping of the rules and ways God commanded? Not at all. What happens, in fact, is that by putting that entire way of life in its proper place, we confirm it. EK GAAN GEEN KOMMENTAAR LEWER OOR WAT ONS GELEES HET VANOGGEND NIE ALHOEWEL EK BAIE HET OM TE SKRYF, NET EEN ENORME DING WAT ONS MOET VERSTAAN - DIE HERE HET GESÊ ONS MOET ELKE DAG BID EN SY WOORD LEES, DIS AL. MAAR JY SE MAAR, EK SAL DIT NOOIT ONTHOU NIE - DIT WAT EK LEES NIE? VERTROU HOM SO BIETJIE DIT SAL UITKOM AS JY DIT NODIG KRY. HY HET NIE GESÊ JY MOET DIE WOORD MEMORISEER NIE EN PERFEKTE MODEL GEBEDE BID NIE, HY NET GESÊ JY MOET DIT LEES, SO MAKLIK SOOS VAL UIT ‘N BOOM UIT. NOU WAT DAN NOU? HY SAL SORG DAT DIT OP DIE TAFELS VAN JOU HART GESKRYF WORD, JOU LEWE VERANDER EN UITKOM WANNEER DIT BEHOORT TE! IS DIT NIE ONGELOOFLIK NIE! SIEN DIT GAAN NIE OOR WAT ONS UIT ONS SELF DOEN NIE MAAR HOE GEHOORSAAM ONS AAN HOM IS DAT ALLES NET SAL UITWERK!! JY WEET TOG NIE WAT JY GEËET HET LAAS WEEK DINSDAG NIE, MAAR DIT HET JOU LIGGAAM DIE KRAG EN STAMINA GEGEE OM TE LEWE IN VOLHEID, NIE WAAR NIE. SO JY HOEF NIE TE ONTHOU WATTER VITAMINES JY DEUR DAAI KOS WAT JY GEËET HET LAAS WEEK, INGEKRY HET NIE EN DAN DAAROP TE KONSENTREER OM DIT TE MAAK GEBEUR NIE? ‘IT JUST HAPPENS!’ SELLE MOET DIE LEES VAN DIE WOORD WEES, JY KAN NIKS DOEN OM DIT TE MAAK JOU LEWE VERANDER NIE, JY HOEF NIE DAAROP TE KONSENTREER NIE, AS JY GOD TOELAAT MAAK HY DIE VERANDERINGS IN JOU LEWE - ‘AND IT JUST HAPPENS’, OF HOE?! Kom ons doen wat sy woord vir ons se en sien hoe dinge net so verander! Its JESUS MAGIC! KOM ONS BID:MY HEMELSE VADER, EK KOM NA U TOE VANOGGEND MET N ENORME DANKBAARHEID IN MY HART DAT U ALLES IN U WOORD KOM GEE HET VIR ONS OM TE LEES EN DAT ONS NIKS KAN MAAK OM TE VERANDER NIE ONS BEHOORT NET HIERDIE LEWENDIG LIG IN ONS LEWE IN TE LAAT DAT U DIE VERANDERINGE SAL KOM MAAK.ONS POGINGS HET ONS KEER OP KEER GESIEN MISLUK EN ONS MOET EINTLIK NET VERTROU SODAT U DIE NODIGE VERANDERINGS IN ONS LEWE SAL LAAT PLAAS VIND. VADER, MY VERTROUE IS 100% IN U AMEN!
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