30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

Other Translations of Romans 3:30

King James Version

30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

English Standard Version

30 since God is one--who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

The Message

30 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.

New King James Version

30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

New Living Translation

30 There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Romans 3:30

Commentary on Romans 3:27-31

(Read Romans 3:27-31)

God will have the great work of the justification and salvation of sinners carried on from first to last, so as to shut out boasting. Now, if we were saved by our own works, boasting would not be excluded. But the way of justification by faith for ever shuts out boasting. Yet believers are not left to be lawless; faith is a law, it is a working grace, wherever it is in truth. By faith, not in this matter an act of obedience, or a good work, but forming the relation between Christ and the sinner, which renders it proper that the believer should be pardoned and justified for the sake of the Saviour, and that the unbeliever who is not thus united or related to him, should remain under condemnation. The law is still of use to convince us of what is past, and to direct us for the future. Though we cannot be saved by it as a covenant, yet we own and submit to it, as a rule in the hand of the Mediator.

20 A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.

Other Translations of Galatians 3:20

King James Version

20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

English Standard Version

20 Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.

The Message

20 But if there is a middleman as there was at Sinai, then the people are not dealing directly with God, are they? But the original promise is the direct blessing of God, received by faith.

New King James Version

20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.

New Living Translation

20 Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement. But God, who is one, did not use a mediator when he gave his promise to Abraham.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Galatians 3:20

Commentary on Galatians 3:19-22

(Read Galatians 3:19-22)

If that promise was enough for salvation, wherefore then serveth the law? The Israelites, though chosen to be God's peculiar people, were sinners as well as others. The law was not intended to discover a way of justification, different from that made known by the promise, but to lead men to see their need of the promise, by showing the sinfulness of sin, and to point to Christ, through whom alone they could be pardoned and justified. The promise was given by God himself; the law was given by the ministry of angels, and the hand of a mediator, even Moses. Hence the law could not be designed to set aside the promise. A mediator, as the very term signifies, is a friend that comes between two parties, and is not to act merely with and for one of them. The great design of the law was, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to those that believe; that, being convinced of their guilt, and the insufficiency of the law to effect a righteousness for them, they might be persuaded to believe on Christ, and so obtain the benefit of the promise. And it is not possible that the holy, just, and good law of God, the standard of duty to all, should be contrary to the gospel of Christ. It tends every way to promote it.