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Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Romans 3:29 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
  • KJV Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
  • BSB Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
  • NKJV Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
  • NLT After all, is God the God of the Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is.

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Quick answer

God is the God of Gentiles as well as Jews. His salvation reaches all peoples.

Overview

Paul presses the implication of justification by faith: if works of the Mosaic law saved, only Jews could be saved. But since God is the one God of all nations, his way of salvation must be open to everyone. This affirms the universal scope of the gospel and the unity of all believers in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 30

  • Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
  • Eph 3:6that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
  • Zech 2:11Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
  • Rom 9:24–26us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
  • Gal 3:25–29But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
  • Gal 3:14that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Zech 8:20–23Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
  • Rom 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
  • Rom 15:9–13and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
  • Rom 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
  • Mark 16:15–16He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
  • Luke 24:46–47He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
  • Jer 16:19Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
  • Gen 17:18Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
  • Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • Acts 26:17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
  • Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  • Isa 54:5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
  • Matt 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
  • Ps 22:7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
  • Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
  • Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • Gen 17:7–8I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
  • Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
  • Rom 11:12–13Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
  • Isa 19:23–25In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
  • Ps 72:17His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
  • Ps 67:2That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

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Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

How Romans 3:29 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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