Posts Tagged ‘justice’

Romans 9:14

Romans 9:14:
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! (NIV)
What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! (NASB)
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. (KJV)
In Rom 9:7–13 Paul makes it clear that “It is not the natural children [...]

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Grace Requires Love AND Justice

As I was thinking about various issues that had been recently weighing on my mind this morning, I happened across a thought regarding the concept of grace and its common (mis)usage.
What we tend not to acknowledge is that grace requires two components:

Love
Justice

We like to focus on the love component, in which something is given to [...]

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Romans 3:25

Romans 3:25:
God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— (NIV)
whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance [...]

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