Romans 1:17

New Century Version

The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself—that it begins and ends with faith. As the Scripture says, “But those who are right with God will live by faith.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 18:9

He lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully. Whoever does these things is good and will surely live, says the Lord God.

Habakkuk 2:4

The evil nation is very proud of itself; it is not living as it should. But those who are right with God will live by faith.

Numbers 21:9

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Then when a snake bit anyone, that person looked at the bronze snake and lived.

John 3:36

Those who believe in the Son have eternal life, but those who do not obey the Son will never have life. God’s anger stays on them.”

Romans 10:3

Because they did not know the way that God makes people right with him, they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Romans 3:21

But God has a way to make people right with him without the law, and he has now shown us that way which the law and the prophets told us about.

Romans 3:22

God makes people right with himself through their faith in Jesus Christ. This is true for all who believe in Christ, because all people are the same:

Romans 3:3

If some Jews were not faithful to him, will that stop God from doing what he promised?

Romans 9:30

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

2 Corinthians 3:9

If the law that judged people guilty of sin had glory, surely the new way that makes people right with God has much greater glory.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could become right with God.

Galatians 3:11

Now it is clear that no one can be made right with God by the law, because the Scriptures say, “Those who are right with God will live by faith.”

Philippians 3:9

and to belong to him. Now I am right with God, not because I followed the law, but because I believed in Christ. God uses my faith to make me right with him.

Hebrews 10:38

Those who are right with me will live by faith. But if they turn back with fear, I will not be pleased with them.”