Righteousness through Faith in Christ

(Romans 3:21–31)

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in [the] Lord. [It is] no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and [it is] a safeguard for you.

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Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! 3 For [it is] we [who] are the circumcision, we who worship by [the] Spirit of God,[fn] who glory in Christ Jesus, and [who] vvv put no confidence in [the] flesh — 4 though I myself could have such confidence

If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in [the] flesh, I [have] more: 5 circumcised on [the] eighth day, of [the] people of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in [the] law, faultless.

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But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from [the] law, but that which [is] through faith in Christ,[fn] the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

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[I want] to know [Christ] and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to [Him] in His death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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