1. Justification Explained (3:21-31)

“But now the righteousness of God … has been manifested” (Rom. 3:21, literal translation). God revealed His righteousness in many ways before the full revelation of the gospel: His law, His judgments against sin, His appeals through the prophets, His blessing on the obedient. But in the gospel, a new kind of righteousness has been revealed (Rom. 1:16-17), and the characteristics of this righteousness are spelled out in this section.