Romans 10:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Revelation 3:17

Submitted

Luke 15:17

General references

Luke 18:21

Bible References

God's righteousness

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

about sin, because they do not believe in me;

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have obtained the same precious faith that we have:

To establish

while Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law that would bring right standing, did not attain to it.

But he, as he wished to justify his question, said, "But who is my neighbor?"

Then He said to them, "You are the men who exhibit your uprightness before the public, but God knows your hearts. For what stands high in the sight of men is detestable in the sight of God.

To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:

I again insist that if any man lets himself be circumcised, he is under obligation to obey the whole law.

and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

Because you say, 'I am rich, I have already become rich, I need nothing,' and you do not know that you are the very one that is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked;

Submitted

Then he came to himself and said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more to eat than they need, and here I am dying of hunger!

General references

But he said, "I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."