Romans 9:31

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Summary

Romans 9:31

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

Followed

Hath

General references

Matthew 19:30

Mark 10:31

Bible References

Followed

What are we then to conclude? That heathen peoples who were not in search for right standing with God have obtained it, and that a right standing conditioned on faith;

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.

Is the law then contrary to God's promises? Of course not. For if a law had been given that was able to impart life, surely, then, right standing would have come through law.

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

Hath

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

For if the law party is to possess the world, then faith has been nullified and the promise has been made null and void.

What are we then to conclude? Israel has failed to obtain what it is still in search for, but His chosen ones have obtained it. The rest have become insensible to it,

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

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

For whoever obeys the whole law, except to slip in a single instance, is guilty of breaking it all.

General references

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are last now will be first then."

But many who are first now will be last then, and last now who will be first then."