3For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
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And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The scope of the apostle in this part of the chapter is to show the vast difference between the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith, and the great pre-eminence of the righteousness of faith above that of the law; that he might induce and persuade the Jews to believe in Christ, aggravate the folly and sin of those that refused, and justify God in the rejection of such refusers.…
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