Rm10:1Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them [the Israelites] is that they may be saved. 2I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to [based on] knowledge. 3For, being ignorant of [not knowing] the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4For Christ is the end of the law for [that there may be] righteousness to [for] everyone who believes. - ESV
Rm2:12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the
law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
13For it is not those who
hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law
who will be declared righteous. 14(Indeed,
when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law,
they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15since
they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their
consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even
defending them.) 16This will take place on the
day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel
declares. - NIV
Rm3:20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in
his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of
sin. 21But now a righteousness from God,
apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22This
righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
There is no difference, 23for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25God
presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. - NIV
Rm3:28For we
maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the
law. ..... 4:1What then shall we say that
Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter? 2If,
in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about--but
not before God. 3What does the Scripture say?
"Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." 4Now
when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an
obligation. 5However, to the man who does not
work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as
righteousness. 6David says the same thing when
he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart
from works:
7�Blessed are they
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
8Blessed
is the man
whose sin the Lord will never count
against him." (Psa32:1-2)
- NIV
Rm7:4So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ,
that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order
that we might bear fruit to God. 5For
when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the
law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. 6But
now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that
we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written
code. - NIV
Rm7:7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I
would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have
known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not
covet." 8But sin,
seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind
of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. 9Once
I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
and I died. 10I found that the very
commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11For
sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and
through the commandment put me to death. - NIV
Rm7:14We know that the law is spiritual;
but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I
do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate
I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I
agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is
no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I
know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the
desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For
what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I
keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want
to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. - NIV
Rm7:21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is
right there with me. 22For
in my inner being I delight in God's law;
23but I see another law
at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and
making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me
from this body of death? 25Thanks be to
God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. - NIV
Rm8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus, 2because through
Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and
death. 3For what
the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God
did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.
And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4in
order that the righteous requirements of the law might be
fully met in us, who do not live according to the
sinful nature but according to the Spirit. 5Those
who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature
desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set
on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind of sinful
man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the
sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit
to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those
controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. - NIV
Rm9:30What shall we say, then? That [the] Gentiles[,] who
did not pursue righteousness[,] have attained it, that is, a righteousness that
is by faith; 31but
that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed
in reaching that law [it]. 32Why?
Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.
They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33as
it is written,
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling [that causes
men to stumble],
and a rock of offense [that makes them
fall];
and whoever believes [trusts] in him will not be put to shame." (Isa8:14,28:16) -
ESV
Rm10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the
law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. 6But
the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will
ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7or
"'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from
the dead). 8But what does it say?
"The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the
word of faith that we proclaim); 9because,
if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For
with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses
and is saved. 11For the Scripture
says, "Everyone [anyone] who believes [trusts] in him will not [will never] be put to shame." 12For
there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all,
bestowing his riches [blessings richly] on all who call on him. 13For
"everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." - ESV
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