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The Law Requires Performance; True Righteousness Comes By Faith In Christ

For Moses writes [in Lev 18:5] as to the righteousness of the Law that “The person having done them will live by them”. But the righteousness of faith speaks[a] as follows: “Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up into heaven?”, that is, to bring[b] Christ down, or “who will go down into the abyss?”, that is, to bring[c] Christ up from the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 10:6 In what follows, Paul uses phrases from Deut 30:11-14 to help describe God’s saving process, explaining his current application of each.
  2. Romans 10:6 The righteousness by faith does not ask who will bring the Messiah down from heaven, because He has already come.
  3. Romans 10:7 Nor does it ask who will bring Him back from the dead, because He has already been raised.

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