Romans 3:25
God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
Note Or as a propitiation
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Note or, a propitiation
whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- set forth
- or, foreordained.
- Acts 2:23; Acts 3:18; Acts 4:28; Acts 15:18; 1 Peter 1:18–20; Revelation 13:8
- to be
- Exodus 25:17–22; Leviticus 16:15; Hebrews 9:5; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10
- through
- Romans 5:1, 9, 11; Isaiah 53:11; John 6:47, 53–58; Colossians 1:20–23; Hebrews 10:19, 20
- to declare
- Romans 3:26; Psalm 22:31; Psalm 40:10; Psalm 50:6; Psalm 97:6; Psalm 119:142; 1 John 1:10
- remission
- or, passing over.
- Romans 3:23, 24; Romans 4:1–8; Acts 13:38, 39; Acts 17:30; 1 Timothy 1:15; Hebrews 9:15–22, 25, 26; Hebrews 10:4; Hebrews 11:7, 14, 17, 39, 40; Revelation 5:9; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 20:15