For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:16-17

The Wrath Of God

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Romans 1:18

Antagonist – Pagan – Gentile
Moralist – Jews – Religious
They Are All Without
Excuse Before God

The Entire Human Race Is In A Wretched State Before God

What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar.
Romans 3:1-4a

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
Romans 3:9

Romans 3:10-18
Paul Brings 14 Counts Against Humanity In 3 Categories

Who One Is
What One Says
What One Does

Key Words! None And All

How Many Are Righteous? None
How Many Are Sinners? All

Romans 1:18-3:20
The Wrath Of God

Romans 3:21
Starts The Grace Of God

Romans 3:21-25
Theologians Have Called It
“Most Important Passage
In The Entire Bible”

Some Have Stated
“The Most Important Words In All Literature”

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God (From God), through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
Romans 3:21-22

“Imputed Righteousness”

No Single Person Can Attain Right Standing Before God,
No Matter What, But Rather It Must Be Conferred Upon Them

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
Romans 3:23-25

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:8

Three Most Important
Words In Romans

Justification
Redemption
Propitiation

Justification
To Make A Declaration And Proclamation
To Treat You As If You Have Never Sinned

Redemption
To Buy Back A Slave By Purchasing Them Because Of The Value You See In Them

Propitiation – Greek – Hilastērion
20 Times In The New Testament
Used For The Mercy Seat Above The Ark Of The Covenant
God’s Meeting Place With Man

What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
Romans 4:1-2

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
Romans 4:3-4

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
Romans 4:5-6

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”
Romans 4:7-8

The God Factor
Versus
The Results Of Justification By Faith

Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
Romans 4:16

(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
Romans 4:17-18

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
Romans 4:19-20

Doubt Is Not The Same As Unbelief
Unbelief – The Core Belief In Your Heart Of What God Can’t And Won’t Do
Doubt – Your Mind Struggling With What The Heart Believes God Can And Will Do

and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us.
Romans 4:21-24