Romeine 3
God doen wat Hy belowe het
1 Is dit belangrik dat iemand ’n Jood is of dat hy tbesny is?
2 Ja, dit is baie belangrik. Die belangrikste is dat God met die Jode gepraat het en dat Hy sy woorde vir hulle gegee het.
3 Maar party van die Jode doen nie wat hulle belowe het nie, hulle dien nie vir God nie. Sal God nou ook nie doen wat Hy vir die Jode belowe het nie?
4 Nee, nooit nie! God doen altyd wat Hy belowe. Dit is mense wat nie doen wat hulle sê nie. Daarom is daar in die Ou Testament geskryf:
tO God, wanneer U iets sê,
dan is dit reg.
Mense wat probeer om vir U
te beskuldig, verloor altyd.
5 Party mense sê dat wanneer ons verkeerde dinge doen, dan kan ’n mens beter sien dat God altyd reg doen. Moet ons dan sê God is verkeerd wanneer Hy ons straf? 6 Nee, nooit nie! As dit wat hulle sê, reg is, dan mag God nooit sê mense is verkeerd nie en dan mag Hy hulle nie straf nie. 7 Party mense sê dat wanneer ons leuens vertel, dan kan ander mense beter sien dat God altyd reg doen en dan kan hulle Hom prys. Hulle sê daarom mag God nie sê ons is sondaars nie en daarom mag Hy ons nie straf nie. Maar daardie mense is verkeerd!
8 Daar is mense wat verkeerd van ons praat. Hulle sê ons sê dat ons slegte dinge moet doen sodat daar goeie dinge met ons kan gebeur. Maar hulle praat nie die waarheid nie. God moet hulle straf, en Hy sal dit doen.Almal is vol sonde
9 Mag ons sê dat ons tonskuldig is en dat ons nie sonde doen nie? Nee, nooit nie! Ek het tin die begin van hierdie brief gesê dat almal tskuldig is. Ek het gesê almal is vol sonde, die Jode én die mense wat nie Jode is nie.
10 In die Ou Testament is daar geskryf:
tNiemand doen reg nie,
nie een nie.
11 tNiemand is tverstandig nie,
niemand vra wat God wil hê nie.
12 Niemand doen wat God
wil hê nie,
almal doen verkeerde dinge,
nie een mens doen goed nie,
niemand nie.
13 tHulle sê dinge wat baie sleg is,
hulle praat en dan tbedrieg hulle
ander mense,
thulle woorde is so sleg
soos die gif van slange.
14 tHulle hou daarvan
om mense te tvervloek
en om slegte dinge te sê.
15 tHulle hou daarvan om mense
dood te maak.
16 Hulle breek alles en hulle maak
mense baie seer.
17 Hulle hou nie van vrede nie.
18 tHulle respekteer nie vir God nie.
19 Ons weet dat almal wat God se wette ken, moet doen wat die wette sê. Daarom kan niemand sê hy is onskuldig nie. Ja, God moet al die mense in die wêreld straf,
20 want Hy sal niemand tvryspreek omdat hy doen wat die wette sê nie. Die wette wys vir ons wat sonde is, die wette wys niks meer nie.God spreek mense vry omdat hulle in Christus glo
21 Maar nou het God vir ons kom wys dat Hy mense tvryspreek, maar nie omdat hulle doen wat die wette sê nie. Ons lees daarvan in die tWette van Moses en in die boeke van die tprofete. 22 God spreek mense vry omdat hulle in Jesus Christus glo. Ja, God spreek almal vry wat glo, dit maak nie saak wie hulle is nie. 23 Want al die mense het sonde gedoen en hulle lewe nie soos God, die Koning, wil hê hulle moet lewe nie, 24 maar God spreek hulle vry omdat Hy baie goed is vir hulle, omdat Christus Jesus hulle vrygemaak het. 25 God het vir Christus laat sterf. Dit is die toffer waarmee God die sonde tversoen van die mense wat in Christus glo. So het God gewys dat Hy altyd doen wat reg is. Die mense het sonde gedoen in die tyd voordat Christus gekom het, maar God het hulle nie gestraf nie.
26 Hy het die mense nie gou gestraf nie, Hy het gewag tot nou toe om te wys dat Hy mense vryspreek. So wys Hy dat Hy altyd doen wat reg is, Hy wat elke mens vryspreek wat in Jesus glo.
27 Mense mag nie trots wees op hulleself en spog omdat hulle doen wat die wette sê nie, want God spreek hulle nie daaroor vry nie. Hy spreek hulle vry omdat hulle glo. 28 Ja, ons weet God spreek mense vry omdat hulle glo, nie omdat hulle doen wat die wette sê nie. 29 God is nie net die God van die Jode nie, Hy is ook die God van die theidene. 30 Daar is net een God. Hy sal die mense wat tbesny is, vryspreek omdat hulle glo, en Hy sal die mense wat nie besny is nie, ook vryspreek omdat hulle glo. 31 Ons sê mense moet glo in Christus. Daarom sê party mense ons sê God se wette beteken niks. Dit is nie waar nie! Nooit nie! God se wette is vir ons belangrik.
Romans 3
1 Have the Jews then any advantage over the Gentiles? Or is there any value in being circumcised? 2 Much, indeed, in every way! In the first place, God trusted his message to the Jews. 3 But what if some of them were not faithful? Does this mean that God will not be faithful?
4 Certainly not! God must be true, even though every human being is a liar. As the scripture says,t
“You must be shown to be right when you speak;
you must win your case when you are being tried.”
5 But what if our doing wrong serves to show up more clearly God's doing right? Can we say that God does wrong when he punishes us? (This would be the natural question to ask.)
6 By no means! If God is not just, how can he judge the world?
7 But what if my untruth serves God's glory by making his truth stand out more clearly? Why should I still be condemned as a sinner?
8 Why not say, then, “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Some people, indeed, have insulted me by accusing me of saying this very thing! They will be condemned, as they should be.No one is Righteous
9 Well then, are we Jews in any better condition than the Gentiles? Not at all!t I have already shown that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.
10 As the Scriptures say:t
“There is no one who is righteous,
11 no one who is wise
or who worships God.
12 All have turned away from God;
they have all gone wrong;
no one does what is right, not even one.
13 Their words are full of deadly deceit;t
wicked lies roll off their tongues,
and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;
14 their speech is filled with bitter curses.t
15 They are quick to hurt and kill;t
16 they leave ruin and destruction wherever they go.
17 They have not known the path of peace,
18 nor have they learnt reverence for God.”t
19 Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgement.
20 For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make people know that they have sinned.tHow We are Put Right with God
21 But now God's way of putting people right with himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do with law, even though the Law of Moses and the prophets gave their witness to it. 22 God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all:t 23 everyone has sinned and is far away from God's saving presence. 24 But by the free gift of God's grace all are put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free.
25-26 God offered him, so that by his bloodt he should become the means by which people's sins are forgiven through their faith in him. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. In the past he was patient and overlooked people's sins; but in the present time he deals with their sins, in order to demonstrate his righteousness. In this way God shows that he himself is righteous and that he puts right everyone who believes in Jesus.
27 What, then, can we boast about? Nothing! And what is the reason for this? Is it that we obey the Law? No, but that we believe. 28 For we conclude that a person is put right with God only through faith, and not by doing what the Law commands. 29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles also? Of course he is. 30 God is one, and he will put the Jews right with himself on the basis of their faith, and will put the Gentiles right through their faith.t 31 Does this mean that by this faith we do away with the Law? No, not at all; instead, we uphold the Law.