Every seasoned believer can quote Romans 3:23 (especially the Calvinists):
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".
But how often does the second half of that sentence get quoted?
What some editor has determined to be a separate verse (24) is actually a continuation of a single thought:
"And are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
The whole sentence is a wonderfully concise statement of the gospel.
First half: problem. Second half: solution.
Yet so many Christians read the first half very literally (as I agree is appropriate) and then remain mum on the second half.
Could it be that it is problematic because the two verbs share a single subject: All?
All fall short. All are justified freely.
Now that might shut the Calvinist up, but there's no reason the rest of us should share just half a verse with a broken world.
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