Romans 10:3

Ignorant of God's righteousness, Israel tried to establish their own and refused to submit to his. Self-made righteousness becomes a barrier to receiving God's gift.

Cross-references · 29

• Luke 16:15He 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.
• Phil 3:9and 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;
• 2 Cor 5:21For 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 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
• Rev 3:17–18Because 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;
• Luke 18:9–12He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
• Rom 5:19For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
• Isa 51:8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
• Isa 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
• Rom 3:22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
• Isa 56:1Yahweh says, “Maintain justice, and do what is right; for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
• Luke 10:29But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
• Neh 9:33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
• Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
• Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
• Lev 26:41I 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;
• Job 33:27He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
• Lam 3:22It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
• Rom 9:30–32What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
• Rom 3:26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
• Ps 71:15–16My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
• Gal 5:3–4Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
• 2 Pet 1:1Simon 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:
• John 16:9–10about sin, because they don’t believe in me;
• Dan 9:24Seventy 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.
• Dan 9:6–9neither 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.
• Jer 23:5–6“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.
• Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
• Luke 15:17–21But 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!

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