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Romans 3:1

Romans 3:1
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

What advantage then hath the Jew?.... If he is not properly a Jew, who is born of Jewish parents, and brought up in the customs, rites, and religion of the Jewish nation, but anyone of whatsoever…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

What advantage ... - The design of the first part of this chapter is to answer some of the objections which might be offered by a Jew to the statements in the last chapter. The first objection is…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Jew. What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision? - As if he had said: You lately allowed, (Rom 2:25), that circumcision verily profited; but if circumcision, or our…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Romans 3:1-18

I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it;…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Rom 3:1-2. The advantage of the Jew: Revelation

1. What advantage Lit. what excess, i. e. of privilege.

St Paul here corrects, though only in passing, the possible inference from the previous passage…