Romans 10:3

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Summary

For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

God's righteousness

To establish

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General references

Bible References

God's righteousness

It reveals the righteousness of God from faith-to-faith for it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.

All day long my mouth will tell of your righteousness and of your salvation. I do not know the number.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens. Look at the earth below. The heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants die like flies (gnats). But my salvation will last forever! My righteousness will never fail.

Jehovah says: Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

The days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch. He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.

Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

First of sin because they do not practice active faith in me.

He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God, and of our Savior Jesus Christ:

To establish

But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.

I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you.

All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: Who is my neighbor?

Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision. He is under obligation to obey the whole Law.

I want to be united with him. I no longer want a righteousness of my own that is gained by obeying the law. The righteousness from God is by faith in Christ.

You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

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I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt,

You have been in the right in everything that happened to us. You have been true to us, but we have done evil!

He comes to men and says: 'I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.'

We have not come to destruction because of Jehovah's loving kindness. His mercies are without end.

We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Finally it dawned on him, my father's hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve!

General references

Adam said: The woman you put here with me gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.

If we are careful to do these commandments before Jehovah our God, just as he ordered us, it will mean righteousness for us.'

Micah said: Now I know that Jehovah will be good to me, since I have a Levite as a priest.

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you.

The man replied: I have observed all these things from my youth.