Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.

New American Standard Bible

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

King James Version

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Holman Bible

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

International Standard Version

For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

A Conservative Version

For Christ is the end of law for righteousness, to every man who believes.

American Standard Version

For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

Amplified

For Christ is the end of the law [it leads to Him and its purpose is fulfilled in Him], for [granting] righteousness to everyone who believes [in Him as Savior].

An Understandable Version

So, Christ has brought an end to the law [as a means] of being made right with God for every person who believes [in Him].

Anderson New Testament

For Christ is the end of the law for justification, to every one that believes.

Common New Testament

For Christ is the end of the law, that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Daniel Mace New Testament

for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.

Darby Translation

For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

Godbey New Testament

For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one who believes.

Goodspeed New Testament

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

John Wesley New Testament

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Julia Smith Translation

For Christ the end of the law for justice to every one believing.

King James 2000

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For Christ [is the] end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Modern King James verseion

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For Christ is the end of the law to justify all that believe.

Moffatt New Testament

Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

Montgomery New Testament

For to every believer Christ is an end of law as a means of righteousness.

NET Bible

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

New Heart English Bible

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Noyes New Testament

For Christ is the end of the Law, so that every one that believeth may obtain righteousness.

Sawyer New Testament

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.

The Emphasized Bible

For Christ is an end of law, for righteousness, unto every one that believeth.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For Christ has brought Law to an end, so that righteousness may be obtained by every one who believes in him.

Webster

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Weymouth New Testament

For as a means of righteousness Christ is the termination of Law to every believer.

Williams New Testament

For Christ has put an end to law as a way to right standing for everyone who puts his trust in Him.

World English Bible

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Worrell New Testament

for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one who believes.

Worsley New Testament

For Christ is the end of the law, for righteousness to every believer.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

is the end
τέλος 
Telos 
Usage: 28

of the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

for
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

to every one
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

Devotionals

Devotionals about Romans 10:4

Images Romans 10:4

Prayers for Romans 10:4

Questions on Romans 10:4

Context Readings

The Righteousness Of God Through Faith In Christ

3 Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith. 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.


Cross References

Galatians 3:24

So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

Isaiah 53:11

... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

Matthew 5:17-18

Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

Acts 13:38-39

And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:

Romans 3:22

That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

Romans 3:25-31

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

Romans 7:1-4

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

Romans 8:3-4

For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

1 Corinthians 1:30

But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

Colossians 2:10

And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

Colossians 2:17

For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

Hebrews 9:7-14

But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

Hebrews 10:8-12

After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

Hebrews 10:14

Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

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