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 it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “

But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your salvation all day long;
For I do not know the sum of them.

“Lift up your eyes to the sky,
Then look to the earth beneath;
For the sky will vanish like smoke,
And the earth will wear out like a garment
And its inhabitants will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not wane.

Thus says the Lord,
“Preserve justice and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come
And My righteousness to be revealed.

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will raise up for David a righteous

Branch;

And He will reign as king and act wisely
And do justice and righteousness in the land.

“Seventy

weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

To establish

but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not profit you.

For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.

And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:

And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.

and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

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I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity,

“However, You are just in all that has come upon us;
For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

“He will sing to men and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.

The Lord’s

lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,

For His compassions never fail.

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

But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!

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The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”

It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us.

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest.”

“If I should wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,

“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not profit you.

And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.”