Romans 3:25

God's Word

God showed that Christ is the throne of mercy where God’s approval is given through faith in Christ’s blood. In his patience God waited to deal with sins committed in the past.

Cross References

Psalm 119:142

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your teachings are reliable.

Psalm 22:31

They will tell people yet to be born about his righteousness— that he has finished it.

Psalm 40:10

I have not buried your righteousness deep in my heart. I have been outspoken about your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not hidden your mercy and your truth from those assembled for worship.

Psalm 50:6

The heavens announce his righteousness because God is the judge. Selah

Psalm 97:6

The heavens tell about his righteousness, and all the people of the world see his glory.

Psalm 98:2

The Lord has made his salvation known. He has uncovered his righteousness for the nations to see.

Isaiah 53:11

He will see and be satisfied because of his suffering. My righteous servant will acquit many people because of what he has learned ⌞through suffering⌟. He will carry their sins as a burden.

Leviticus 16:10

But he must bring the goat chosen by lot for Azazel into the Lord’s presence. He will release it in the desert to Azazel in order to make peace with the Lord for himself and his family.

Leviticus 16:15

“Next, Aaron will slaughter the goat for the people’s offering for sin. He will take the blood inside, go up to the canopy, and sprinkle it on the throne of mercy and in front of it, as he did with the bull’s blood.

John 6:47

I can guarantee this truth: Every believer has eternal life.

Acts 14:16

In the past God allowed all people to live as they pleased.

Acts 15:18

He is the one who will do these things that have always been known!’

Acts 17:30

“God overlooked the times when people didn’t know any better. But now he commands everyone everywhere to turn to him and change the way they think and act.

Acts 2:23

By using men who don’t acknowledge Moses’ Teachings, you crucified Jesus, who was given over ⌞to death⌟ by a plan that God had determined in advance.

Acts 3:18

But in this way God made the sufferings of his Messiah come true. God had predicted these sufferings through all the prophets.

Acts 4:28

Through your will and power, they did everything that you had already decided should be done.

Romans 2:4

Do you have contempt for God, who is very kind to you, puts up with you, and deals patiently with you? Don’t you realize that it is God’s kindness that is trying to lead you to him and change the way you think and act?

Romans 3:26

He waited so that he could display his approval at the present time. This shows that he is a God of justice, a God who approves of people who believe in Jesus.

Romans 5:1

Now that we have God’s approval by faith, we have peace with God because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done.

Romans 5:11

In addition, our Lord Jesus Christ lets us continue to brag about God. After all, it is through Christ that we now have this restored relationship with God.

Romans 5:18

Therefore, everyone was condemned through one failure, and everyone received God’s life-giving approval through one verdict.

Romans 5:9

Since Christ’s blood has now given us God’s approval, we are even more certain that Christ will save us from God’s anger.

1 Corinthians 5:7

Remove the old yeast ⌞of sin⌟ so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you don’t actually have the yeast ⌞of sin⌟. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God had Christ, who was sinless, take our sin so that we might receive God’s approval through him.

Ephesians 1:7

Through the blood of his Son, we are set free from our sins. God forgives our failures because of his overflowing kindness.

Ephesians 2:13

But now through Christ Jesus you, who were once far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

1 Timothy 1:15

This is a statement that can be trusted and deserves complete acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I am the foremost sinner.

Hebrews 10:4

(The blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.)

Hebrews 11:14

Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for their own country.

Hebrews 11:17

When God tested Abraham, faith led him to offer his son Isaac. Abraham, the one who received the promises from God, was willing to offer his only son as a sacrifice.

Hebrews 11:7

Faith led Noah to listen when God warned him about the things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a ship to save his family. Through faith Noah condemned the world and received God’s approval that comes through faith.

Hebrews 9:28

Likewise, Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of humanity, and after that he will appear a second time. This time he will not deal with sin, but he will save those who eagerly wait for him.

Hebrews 9:5

Above the ark were the angels  of glory ⌞with their wings⌟ overshadowing the throne of mercy. (Discussing these things in detail isn’t possible now.)

1 John 1:10

If we say, “We have never sinned,” we turn God into a liar and his Word is not in us.

1 John 2:2

He is the payment for our sins, and not only for our sins, but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 4:10

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the payment for our sins.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the witness, the trustworthy one, the first to come back to life, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Glory and power forever and ever  belong to the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

Revelation 13:8

Everyone living on earth will worship it, everyone whose name is not written in the Book of Life. That book belongs to the lamb who was slaughtered before the creation of the world.

Revelation 20:15

Those whose names were not found in the Book of Life were thrown into the fiery lake.

Revelation 5:9

Then they sang a new song, “You deserve to take the scroll and open the seals on it, because you were slaughtered. You bought people with your blood to be God’s own. They are from every tribe, language, people, and nation.