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 therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Of sin, because they believe not on me;

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

To establish

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

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And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.