Rom 3:24-26 – Jesus’ Death Makes God Just When He Justifies

Consider Romans 3:24-26: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption (“a releasing effected by payment …” – Thayer) that is in Christ Jesus: 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, … that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Rom 3:24-26 teaches Jesus’ death declared God’s “righteousness.” That is, the only way God could be “just and the justifier of him which believeth” was because Jesus died “for the remission of sins that are past” (present, and future).  For God to forgive in Old Testament times (and New), penalty for sin eventually had to be paid, else God would prove to be unjust – just letting everybody off the hook (the spiritual consequences of sin) for no good reason.

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