Righteousness…Part 6

Romans 6:19  

I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

Romans 6:20  

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.

Romans 8:4  

In 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.

Romans 8:10  

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Romans 8:30  

And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Romans 9:28  

For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”

Romans 9:30  

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, righteousness that is by faith;

Romans 9:31  

But Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

Romans 9:32   

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”

Romans 10:3  

Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Romans 10:4  

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

Romans 10:5  

Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Romans 10:6 6

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (That is, to bring Christ down)