Romans 10:4 Cross References - MNT

⁴ For to every believer Christ is an end of law as a means of righteousness.

¹⁵ But Jesus answered, "Permit it now, for so it is fitting for us to fulfill every religious duty."

¹⁷ "Do not suppose that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil. ¹⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until all has taken place.

¹⁷ For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

³⁸ "Be it known unto you therefore, brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through this man; ³⁹ "and that by him every one that believes is justified from all things from which you could never be justified by the law of Moses.

²² I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,

²⁵ For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness—since in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed—to show forth his righteousness, ²⁶ I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷ Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith. ²⁸ For I conclude that a man is justified by faith, altogether apart from the deeds of the Law. ²⁹ Is God then the God of the Jews alone, and not of the Gentiles also? He is God of the Gentiles also, ³⁰ since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised. ³¹ Do we then render law invalid through faith? Certainly not; on the contrary we make it stand.

¹ Surely, brothers, you know (for I am speaking to those who know what law means) that law governs a person only during his lifetime? ² For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. ³ So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man. ⁴ So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

³ For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; ⁴ in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

³⁰ It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

²⁴ So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;

¹⁰ and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.

¹⁷ These were a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

⁷ but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people. ⁸ The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing. ⁹ This is a parable, for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able, as far as conscience is concerned, to perfect the worshiper; ¹⁰ since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation. ¹¹ But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation, ¹² not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

⁸ First when it is said, Thou hast no longing for, thou takest no delight in Sacrifices and offerings, or whole burnt offerings and sin offerings, ⁹ (offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ For while every priest stands, day after day, at his ministrations, and many times repeats the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, ¹² this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God's right hand;

¹⁴ For by one single offering he has perfected forever those whom he is sanctifying.