Romans 10:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly:

Job 33:27

He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:

Psalm 71:19

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?

Isaiah 51:1

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.

Isaiah 51:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgement, and do righteousness: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Isaiah 57:12

I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.

Isaiah 64:6

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Lamentations 3:22

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Leviticus 26:41

I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;

Luke 10:29

But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

Luke 16:15

And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Romans 1:17

For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

Romans 10:2

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

Romans 10:20

And Isaiah is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I became manifest unto them that asked not of me.

Romans 11:7

What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

Romans 3:22

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

Romans 3:26

for the shewing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

Romans 5:19

For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Deuteronomy 6:25

And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

Philippians 3:9

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

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: