Q&R: How do you read Romans 3:23? Brad Jersak

Romans 3:23 -- In my childhood, as a young Evangelical, memorizing Scripture was important to me. I saw and experienced its value and knew it as one way to commune with God. I also appreciated finding short verses that were easy to recall. That's one reason Romans 3:23 made it to my earliest list of well-known passages. The verse is an excerpt from one of Paul’s notoriously long sentences: 22b For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, ...