Romans 10:4

Romans 10:4. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

He has put the law away so far as his own people are concerned; and, by that act, he has removed the possibility of self-righteousness, since we are no longer under the law. Though there can come no condemnation to us by it, there certainly can come no righteousness by it. Even Christ’s own people can never have any righteousness which cometh by the law; they must look to Christ, and find in him alone all that can be demanded by the law, "for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."