Romans 10:4 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁴ For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

¹⁵ But Jesus answered, "Let it be so this time, for it is right for us to do everything that God requires." Then John consented.

¹⁷ "Do not suppose that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them but to enforce them. ¹⁸ For I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an i or crossing of a t will be dropped from the Law until it is all observed.

¹⁷ For while the Law was given through Moses, blessing and truth came to us through Jesus Christ.

³⁸ You must understand therefore, my brothers, that through him the forgiveness of your sins is announced to you, ³⁹ and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.

²² It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

²⁵ For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)— ²⁶ to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also. ²⁷ Then what becomes of our boasting? It is shut out. On what principle? What a man does? No, but whether a man has faith. ²⁸ For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it. ²⁹ Does God belong to the Jews alone? Does he not belong to the heathen too? Of course he belongs to the heathen too; ³⁰ there is but one God, and he will make the circumcised upright on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised upright because of theirs." ³¹ Is this using faith to overthrow law? Far from it. This confirms the Law.

¹ Do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to men who know what law is—that law governs a man only as long as he lives? ² For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, the marriage law no longer applies to her. ³ So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress. ⁴ So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

³ For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature, ⁴ so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

³⁰ But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom—our uprightness and consecration and redemption,

²⁴ So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

¹⁰ and in union with him you too are filled with it. He is the head of all your principalities and dominions.

¹⁷ That was all only the shadow of something that was to follow; the reality is found in Christ.

⁷ but only the high priest could enter the inner part, and he but once a year, and never without taking some victim's blood, to offer on his own behalf and for the sins committed through ignorance by the people. ⁸ In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing. ⁹ And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God, ¹⁰ since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings—material regulations in force only until the time for the new order. ¹¹ But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary, ¹² taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance. ¹³ For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically, ¹⁴ how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

⁸ At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"—all of which the Law prescribes— ⁹ and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place. ¹⁰ And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice. ¹¹ Every other priest stands officiating day after day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices, though they were powerless ever to remove people's sins. ¹² But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

¹⁴ For by that one sacrifice he has forever qualified those who are purified from sin to approach God.