Sentences with phrase «righteousness comes from faith»

3:6), but he does state that legal observance could not produce righteousness, for righteousness comes from faith (Hab.

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That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have achieved it, that is, righteousness that comes from faith; but that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain to that law?

Philippians 3:8,9 «More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,»

Romans 5:13 (in context) says that when we have faith in God to deliver us from sin, there is no law (to condemn us) because righteousness comes not by the law, but by faith.

I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

Contrasting the righteousness that comes from the law (practicing the law) with the righteousness that comes from faith (relying on Christ's righteousness).