Romans 9:30

What should we say next? That the Gentiles who did not follow justice have attained justice, even the justice that is of faith.

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In The King James Version

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

In Context

29And it is just as Isaiah predicted: “Unless the Lord of hosts had bequeathed offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made similar to Gomorrah.”

31Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.

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Cross References

Proverbs 15:9The way of the impious is an abomination to the Lord. Whoever pursues justice is loved by him.

Isaiah 51:1Listen to me, you who follow what is just and who seek the Lord. Pay attention to the rock from which you have been hewn, and to the walls of the pit from which you have been dug.

Romans 1:17For the justice of God is revealed within it, by faith unto faith, just as it was written: “For the just one lives by faith.”

Romans 3:21But now, without the law, the justice of God, to which the law and the prophets have testified, has been made manifest.

Romans 4:11For he received the sign of circumcision as a symbol of the justice of that faith which exists apart from circumcision, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, so that it might also be reputed to them unto justice,

Romans 4:22And for this reason, it was reputed to him unto justice.

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:26-30

Conversion of the Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in… Read the whole commentary →

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