Romans 9:31 Cross References

Romans 9:31

31: But the Jews, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.

Romans 11:7

  1. So this is the situation: Most of the Jews have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have--the ones God has chosen--but the rest were made unresponsive.

Romans 3:20

  1. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Romans 10:2

  1. I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.
  2. For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.
  3. For Christ has accomplished the whole purpose of the law. All who believe in him are made right with God.

Romans 4:14

  1. So if you claim that God's promise is for those who obey God's law and think they are "good enough" in God's sight, then you are saying that faith is useless. And in that case, the promise is also meaningless.
  2. But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

Romans 9:30

  1. Well then, what shall we say about these things? Just this: The Gentiles have been made right with God by faith, even though they were not seeking him.
  2. But the Jews, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.
  3. Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law and being good instead of by depending on faith. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.

Isaiah 51:1

  1. "Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance--all who seek the LORD! Consider the quarry from which you were mined, the rock from which you were cut!

Philippians 3:6

  1. And zealous? Yes, in fact, I harshly persecuted the church. And I obeyed the Jewish law so carefully that I was never accused of any fault.

Galatians 3:10

  1. But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."
  2. Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."

Galatians 3:21

  1. Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.

Galatians 5:3

  1. I'll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey all of the regulations in the whole law of Moses.
  2. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace.

James 2:10

  1. And the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as the person who has broken all of God's laws.
  2. For the same God who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." So if you murder someone, you have broken the entire law, even if you do not commit adultery.
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