Rom 10:3, 5, Phili 3:6 | JFB | STEP | 3. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness —that is, for the justification of the guilty (see on ). and going about —"seeking" to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God —The apostle views the general rejection of Christ by the nation as one act.

Romans 10:3

3. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness—that is, for the justification of the guilty (see on Ro 1:17).

and going about—"seeking"

to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God—The apostle views the general rejection of Christ by the nation as one act.

Romans 10:5

5-10. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man that doeth—"hath done"

those things—which it commands.

shall live in them— (Le 18:5). This is the one way of justification and life—by "the righteousness which is of (or, by our own obedience to) the law."

Philippians 3:6

6. Concerning—Translate as before and after, "As touching Zeal" (compare Ac 22:3; 26:9).

blameless—Greek, "having become blameless" as to ceremonial righteousness: having attained in the eyes of man blameless legal perfection. As to the holiness before God, which is the inner and truest spirit of the law, and which flows from "the righteousness of God by faith," he on the contrary declares (Php 3:12-14) that he has not attained perfection.