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Rom. 3:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whom
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
hos (Greek #3739)
the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that
KJV usage: one, (an-, the) other, some, that, what, which, who(-m, -se), etc. See also 3757.
Pronounce: hos
Origin: ἥ (hay), and neuter ὅ (ho) probably a primary word (or perhaps a form of the article 3588)
God
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
theos (Greek #2316)
a deity, especially (with 3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very
KJV usage: X exceeding, God, god(-ly, -ward).
Pronounce: theh'-os
Origin: of uncertain affinity
hath κset forth
protithemai (Greek #4388)
to place before, i.e. (for oneself) to exhibit; (to oneself) to propose (determine)
KJV usage: purpose, set forth.
Pronounce: prot-ith'-em-ahee
Origin: middle voice from 4253 and 5087
to be a propitiation
hilasterion (Greek #2435)
an expiatory (place or thing), i.e. (concretely) an atoning victim, or (specially) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple)
KJV usage: mercyseat, propitiation.
Pronounce: hil-as-tay'-ree-on
Origin: neuter of a derivative of 2433
through
dia (Greek #1223)
through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)
KJV usage: after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) ... fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with (-in). In composition it retains the same general importance.
Pronounce: dee-ah'
Origin: a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act
faith
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
pistis (Greek #4102)
persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself
KJV usage: assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
Pronounce: pis'-tis
Origin: from 3982
in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
his
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
blood
haima (Greek #129)
blood, literally (of men or animals), figuratively (the juice of grapes) or specially (the atoning blood of Christ); by implication, bloodshed, also kindred
KJV usage: blood.
Pronounce: hah'-ee-mah
Origin: of uncertain derivation
, to
eis (Greek #1519)
to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases
KJV usage: (abundant-)ly, against, among, as, at, (back-)ward, before, by, concerning, + continual, + far more exceeding, for (intent, purpose), fore, + forth, in (among, at, unto, -so much that, -to), to the intent that, + of one mind, + never, of, (up-)on, + perish, + set at one again, (so) that, therefore(-unto), throughout, til, to (be, the end, -ward), (here-)until(-to), ...ward, (where-)fore, with. Often used in composition with the same general import, but only with verbs (etc.) expressing motion (literally or figuratively).
Pronounce: ice
Origin: a primary preposition
declare
endeixis (Greek #1732)
indication (abstractly)
KJV usage: declare, evident token, proof.
Pronounce: en'-dike-sis
Origin: from 1731
his
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
righteousness
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
dikaiosune (Greek #1343)
equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification
KJV usage: righteousness.
Pronounce: dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay
Origin: from 1342
for
dia (Greek #1223)
through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)
KJV usage: after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) ... fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with (-in). In composition it retains the same general importance.
Pronounce: dee-ah'
Origin: a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act
the λremission
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
paresis (Greek #3929)
praetermission, i.e. toleration
KJV usage: remission.
Pronounce: par'-es-is
Origin: from 2935
of sins
hamartema (Greek #265)
a sin (properly concrete)
KJV usage: sin.
Pronounce: ham-ar'-tay-mah
Origin: from 264
that are past
proginomai (Greek #4266)
to be already, i.e. have previousy transpired
KJV usage: be past.
Pronounce: prog-in'-om-ahee
Origin: from 4253 and 1096
, through the forbearance of God;
κ
or, foreordained.
λ
or, passing over.

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Remission,
Righteousness,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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set forth.
or, foreordained.
Acts 2:23• 23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: (Acts 2:23)
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Acts 3:18• 18But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. (Acts 3:18)
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Acts 4:28• 28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. (Acts 4:28)
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Acts 15:18• 18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. (Acts 15:18)
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1 Peter 1:18‑20• 18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
 19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
 20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (1 Peter 1:18‑20)
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Rev. 13:8• 8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev. 13:8)
to be.
Ex. 25:17‑22• 17And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
 18And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
 19And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
 20And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
 21And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
 22And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Ex. 25:17‑22)
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Lev. 16:15• 15Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that 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 over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. (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: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of 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 to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10)
through.
Rom. 5:1,9,11• 1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
 9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
 11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. (Rom. 5:1,9,11)
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Isa. 53:11• 11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (Isa. 53:11)
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John 6:47,53‑58• 47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
 53Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
 54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
 55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
 56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
 57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
 58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. (John 6:47,53‑58)
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Col. 1:20‑23• 20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
 21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
 22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
 23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; (Col. 1:20‑23)
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Heb. 10:19‑20• 19Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
 20By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; (Heb. 10:19‑20)
to declare.
Rom. 3:26• 26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in 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 this. (Psa. 22:31)
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Psa. 40:10• 10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness 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 is judge himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:6)
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Psa. 97:6• 6The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory. (Psa. 97:6)
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Psa. 119:142• 142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the 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 that 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, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
 2For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
 3For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
 4Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
 5But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
 6Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
 7Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
 8Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. (Rom. 4:1‑8)
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Acts 13:38‑39• 38Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
 39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:38‑39)
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Acts 17:30• 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)
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1 Tim. 1:15• 15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. (1 Tim. 1:15)
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Heb. 9:15‑22,25‑26• 15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
 16For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
 17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
 18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
 19For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
 20Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
 21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
 22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
 25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
 26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Heb. 9:15‑22,25‑26)
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Heb. 10:4• 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Heb. 10:4)
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Heb. 11:7,14,17,39‑40• 7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
 14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
 17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
 39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
 40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. (Heb. 11:7,14,17,39‑40)
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Rev. 5:9• 9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Rev. 5:9)
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Rev. 13:8• 8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev. 13:8)
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Rev. 20:15• 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life 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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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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a
That is, a mercy-seat, as in {vi 30111}{/vi}.