Romans 10:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many hired men of my father have more than enough to eat, and here am I perishing of hunger! ¹⁸ I will be up and off to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; ¹⁹ I don't deserve to be called your son any more; only make me like one of your hired men."' ²⁰ So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him. ²¹ The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I don't deserve to be called your son any more.'

¹⁵ So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

⁹ He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else. ¹⁰ "Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. ¹² Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you see me no more;

¹⁷ God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith — as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

²² but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn.

²⁶ it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

¹⁹ Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

³⁰ What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith; ³¹ whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law. ³² And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble —

²¹ For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

³ I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law. ⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

⁹ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.

¹ Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

¹⁷ You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' — not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked. ¹⁸ I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see.