Romans 10:3

World English Bible (2000)

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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  • Luke 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
  • Phil 3:9 : 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • Rev 3:17-18 : 17 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Rom 3:22 : 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
  • Rom 5:19 : 19 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
  • Ps 71:19 : 19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
  • Lev 26:41 : 41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
  • Neh 9:33 : 33 However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
  • Isa 56:1 : 1 Thus says Yahweh, "Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
  • Isa 57:12 : 12 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
  • John 16:9-9 : 9 about sin, because they don't believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
  • Gal 5:3-4 : 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
  • Rom 9:30-32 : 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
  • Rom 3:26 : 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
  • Luke 15:17-21 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."' 20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
  • Dan 9:6-9 : 6 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
  • Ps 71:15-16 : 15 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure. 16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
  • Jer 23:5-6 : 5 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

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    20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

    21But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

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    24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

    25whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

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