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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Bible References

God's righteousness

For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."

I will declare your righteousness and your salvation every day, though I do not fully understand what the outcome will be.

"Lift up your eyes, you heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these. Its inhabitants will die just like this; but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail.

For this is what the LORD says: "Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and soon my deliverance will be revealed.

"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll raise up a righteous branch for David. He will be a king who rules wisely, and he will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

of sin, because they don't believe in me;

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us.

From: Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus, the Messiah. To: Those who have received faith that is as valuable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.

To establish

But Israel, who pursued righteousness based on the Law, did not achieve the Law.

"I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.

But the man wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.

Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:

Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Law.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but one that comes through the faithfulness of the Messiah, the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith.

You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

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causing me to oppose them and take them to the land of their enemies so that the uncircumcised foreskin of their hearts can be humbled and so that they accept the punishment of their iniquity

You are righteous in all that is happening to us, because you have acted faithfully while we have practiced evil.

"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.

Because of the LORD's gracious love we are not consumed, since his compassions never end.

Furthermore, we haven't listened to your servants, the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, to our officials, to our ancestors, and to all of the people of the land.

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

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The man answered, "The woman whom you provided for me gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate some of it."

It will be credited as righteousness for us, if we're careful to obey the entire Law in the presence of the LORD our God, as he commanded.'"

As for Micah, he kept saying, "Now I know the LORD will make me rich, because I have a descendant of Levi for a priest!"

"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

"I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.

The official replied, "I have kept all of these since I was a young man."