Romans 10:1-4 Part 2 of 2

Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

 

Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness 

Romans 1:17  For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." (Habakkuk 2:4)

Romans 9:31  ... but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. 

Deuteronomy 6:25  "And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."

Isaiah 51:1-2  "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many."

Christ is the culmination of the law 

Galatians 3:24  So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.

Romans 7:1  So, my brothers and sisters, 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 for God.

so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes 

Romans 3:22-24  This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

(parentheses are mine)

 

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