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Rom. 3:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whom God hath κset forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the λremission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

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or, foreordained.

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or, passing over.

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set forth.

or, foreordained.

Acts 2:23• ²³--him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain. (Acts 2:23)

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Acts 3:18• ¹⁸but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer. (Acts 3:18)

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Acts 4:28• ²⁸to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass. (Acts 4:28)

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Acts 15:18• ¹⁸known from eternity. (Acts 15:18)

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1 Peter 1:18‑20• ¹⁸knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,
¹⁹but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ,
²⁰foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes, (1 Peter 1:18‑20)

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Rev. 13:8• ⁸and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb. (Rev. 13:8)

to be.

Ex. 25:17‑22• ¹⁷And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
¹⁸And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.
¹⁹And make one cherub at the end of the one side, and one cherub at the end of the other side; out of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim at the two ends thereof.
²⁰And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings over it, covering over with their wings the mercy-seat, and their faces opposite to one another: toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be turned.
²¹And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give thee.
²²And there will I meet with thee, and will speak with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, everything that I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Ex. 25:17‑22)

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Lev. 16:15• ¹⁵And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin-offering, which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat; (Lev. 16:15)

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Heb. 9:5• ⁵and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail. (Heb. 9:5)

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Heb. 9• (Heb. 9)

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1 John 2:2• ²and *he* is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world. (1 John 2:2)

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1 John 4:10• ¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10)

through.

Rom. 5:1,9,11• ¹Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
⁹Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.
¹¹And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation. (Rom. 5:1,9,11)

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Isa. 53:11• ¹¹He shall see of the fruit of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant instruct many in righteousness; and *he* shall bear their iniquities. (Isa. 53:11)

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John 6:47,53‑58• ⁴⁷Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me has life eternal.
⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.
⁵⁴He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day:
⁵⁵for my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink.
⁵⁶He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him.
⁵⁷As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, *he* also who eats me shall live also on account of me.
⁵⁸This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever. (John 6:47,53‑58)

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Col. 1:20‑23• ²⁰and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross--by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.
²¹And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled
²²in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,
²³if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which *I* Paul became minister. (Col. 1:20‑23)

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Heb. 10:19‑20• ¹⁹Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holy of holies by the blood of Jesus,
²⁰the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh, (Heb. 10:19‑20)

to declare.

Rom. 3:26• ²⁶for the shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of the faith of Jesus. (Rom. 3:26)

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Psa. 22:31• ³¹They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it. (Psa. 22:31)

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Psa. 40:10• ¹⁰I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation. (Psa. 40:10)

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Psa. 50:6• ⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:6)

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Psa. 97:6• ⁶The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory. (Psa. 97:6)

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Psa. 119:142• ¹⁴²Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth. (Psa. 119:142)

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1 John 1:10• ¹⁰If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. (1 John 1:10)

remission.

or, passing over.

Rom. 3:23‑24• ²³for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; (Rom. 3:23‑24)

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Rom. 4:1‑8• ¹What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?
²For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;
³for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
⁴Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:
⁵but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
⁶Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:
⁷Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:
⁸blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin. (Rom. 4:1‑8)

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Acts 13:38‑39• ³⁸Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,
³⁹and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified. (Acts 13:38‑39)

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Acts 17:30• ³⁰God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent, (Acts 17:30)

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1 Tim. 1:15• ¹⁵Faithful is the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I* am the first. (1 Tim. 1:15)

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Heb. 9:15‑22,25‑26• ¹⁵And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
¹⁶(For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.
¹⁷For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)
¹⁸Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.
¹⁹For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
²⁰saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.
²¹And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood;
²²and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.
²⁵nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;
²⁶since he had then been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by his sacrifice. (Heb. 9:15‑22,25‑26)

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Heb. 10:4• ⁴For blood of bulls and goats is incapable of taking away sins. (Heb. 10:4)

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Heb. 11:7,14,17,39‑40• ⁷By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
¹⁴For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.
¹⁷By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,
³⁹And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise,
⁴⁰God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us. (Heb. 11:7,14,17,39‑40)

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Rev. 5:9• ⁹And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, (Rev. 5:9)

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Rev. 13:8• ⁸and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb. (Rev. 13:8)

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Rev. 20:15• ¹⁵And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:15)

• The righteousness itself was manifested: we come to Christ as a propitiatory that God has set forth before men, and we find on it the blood which gives us free access to God in righteousness—God whose glory is satisfied in the work that Christ Jesus has accomplished, His blood upon the mercy-seat bearing witness thereof. (“Romans 3:21-31” by J.N. Darby)

• The Cross is like a Lighthouse—casting its light before and behind (Rom. 3:25). (“Hunt’s Sayings - 379” by R. Hunt)

• The mercy seat in the Old Testament sacrificial system was the place where God met with His people on the ground of the blood of a victim—a sacrifice (Ex. 25:22—"there I will meet with thee;" Lev. 16:14). This illustrates (typically) what we announce in the gospel testimony. Christ set forth as the "Mercy seat" in the gospel is the announcement that God is now able to meet the sinner and bless him on the merits of Christ's sacrifice. (“Deliverance From the Penalty of Sins: Romans 3:21-5:11” by B. Anstey)

• "The forbearance of God." Forbearance has to do with God knowing and recording sins but not demanding a payment for them immediately upon them being committed. (“Deliverance From the Penalty of Sins: Romans 3:21-5:11” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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whom God has set forth a mercy-seatq, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing bya the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

JND Translation Notes

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q

I do not think this word can be used for "[a] propitiatory [sacrifice]" or "propitiation"; it certainly is not the habitual use in the LXX; and we have the two parts of the work of the great day of atonement, here and in ch. 4.25; "set forth," here, has a reflexive force; see Note e, Heb. 1.3.

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"In respect of the passing by the sins." I have hesitated as to using dia with the accusative in this sense here; but on the whole I do not doubt it gives the sense. God had passed by, not brought into judgment, the sins of Old Testament believers; and the accomplishment of the atonement showed His righteousness in this. Now the righteousness is itself shown, and to be relied on.

W. Kelly Translation

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whom God set forth as a propitiatorya through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,

WK Translation Notes

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That is, a mercy-seat, as in {vi 30111}{/vi}.