Life Lesson (verse Romans 10:1)
We should desire that others follow Jesus and find love and forgiveness.
Life Lesson (verse Romans 10:3)
No one can ever truly be self righteous.
Life Lesson (verse Romans 10:4)
We will never be declared innocent through good works.
Rom 10:3 NLT
For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.
Rom 3:10 NKJV
As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
Rom 3:10 NLT
As the Scriptures say, "No one is good-- not even one.
Rom 3:23 NKJV
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:23 NLT
For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard.
Jer 23:6 NKJV
In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Isa 64:6 NLT
We are all infected and impure with sin. When we proudly display our righteous deeds, we find they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away.
Matt 5:17 NKJV
"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Gal 3:24 NKJV
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Rom 10:5 NLT
For Moses wrote that the law's way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.
James 2:10 NKJV
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
James 2:10 NLT
And the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as the person who has broken all of God's laws.
Rom 10:6-7 NLT
6 But the way of getting right with God through faith says, "You don't need to go to heaven" (to find Christ and bring him down to help you). 7 And it says, "You don't need to go to the place of the dead" (to bring Christ back to life again).
Rom 10:8 NLT
Salvation that comes from trusting Christ--which is the message we preach--is already within easy reach. In fact, the Scriptures say, "The message is close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart."
Rev 3:20 NKJV
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
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