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By means of a chain of Old Testament passages Paul adduces the evidence for the proposition that by nature everybody is under the power of sin, and that accordingly “there is no one righteous, no, not one.” This being true, it follows that the attempt to gain salvation by performing works of obedience to God’s [...]

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Having shown that the Gentiles are the objects of God’s wrath because of their sinful practices, the apostle now directs his attention to the Jews, and states that they are without excuse when they practice some of the very evils they condemn in others. Let not the Jew think that because he has not been [...]

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