Romans 10:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes [which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought, and deed] and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's righteousness.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Common English Bible

³ They don’t submit to God’s righteousness because they don’t understand his righteousness, and they try to establish their own righteousness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For, being ignorant of the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not subjected themselves to the justice of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For they, not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

Romans 10:3 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:33

You have been just in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;

Job 33:27

That person sings to others and says, ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not paid back to me.

Psalm 71:19

and your righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Isaiah 51:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look at the earth beneath, for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and those who live on it will die like gnats, but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never be ended.

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, but my deliverance will be forever and my salvation to all generations.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come and my deliverance be revealed.

Isaiah 57:12

I will announce your verdict, and the objects you made will not help you.

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Lamentations 3:22

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Leviticus 26:41

so that I in turn was hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if, then, their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

Luke 10:29

But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 16:15

So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts, for what is prized by humans is an abomination in the sight of God.

Romans 1:17

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith, as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 10:2

For I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on knowledge.

Romans 10:20

Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, “I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not achieved what it was pursuing. The elect have achieved it, but the rest were hardened,

Romans 3:22

the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

Romans 3:26

it was to demonstrate at the present time his own righteousness, so that he is righteous and he justifies the one who has the faith of Jesus.

Romans 5:19

For just as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Deuteronomy 6:25

If we diligently observe this entire commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, we will be in the right.’

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.

2 Peter 1:1

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith as equally honorable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: