Righteousness

To convict every person that righteousness is to be had only by faith in Christ, consider [what the Apostle Paul said concerning all who do not believe the Gospel], in this case the unbelieving Jews: “For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness” (Romans 10:3 ESV). And so they perished. “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Romans 10:4 ESV). Consider also: “And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses” (Acts 13:39 ESV). And, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7 ESV).