Romans 9:31

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down);

For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.

Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.