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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Always see all the good that is to be seen; and, when you have to reprove and rebuke begin by admitting what is good: “They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness,.... Either of the righteousness of God revealed in the Gospel, which is no other than the righteousness of Christ, and which they knew nothing of, the whole Gospel being a sealed book, and wholly hidden from them; or of the righteousness of God required in the law, they imagining that only an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Perhaps I am addressing some who are very anxious to be right with God; they are by no means hypocrites, but are really awakened to a sense of their danger, yet they cannot get peace of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. And that is the great mischief with persons who are not saved. They are very sincere, very earnest, but they will not submit to the righteousness of God; they will not agree to be made...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Man must have a righteousness of one kind or another; and if he has not a God-given righteousness, he seeks to have one of his own making. As the spider spinneth her web out of her own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. This is not an error on the part of the Jews alone; it is to be found also among many Gentiles. Such people must have a righteousness of their own; and Paul says they are continually...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. They were so busy trying to work out a righteousness of their own that they had never accepted the righteousness as which God is prepared freely to give to all those who will receive it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. This is a great evil in the present day. There are many persons who are evidently zealous for God, but they make a mistake in supposing that they are to be saved by their own doings,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. They were very zealous; but it was blind zeal. They were very energetic; but they used their energy in going the wrong way. God has a righteousness, and our wisest course is to submit to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For Christ is the end of the law,.... The apostle here observes that to them which had they known, would have regulated their zeal, removed their ignorance and set them right, in that which they stumbled at, and fell. By the "law" here, is not meant the ceremonial law, of which, indeed, they were all very zealous, and of which Christ also was the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Christ is the ultimatum of the law; and when we go to the law, accepted and protected by him, we present to the law all that it can possibly demand of us. Christ has fulfilled the law on behalf of all who believe in him, so that its curse is abolished for all of us who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. That is the righteousness of the law. We are not under that covenant now. We shall never attain to righteousness that way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. He that believes in Christ is as righteous as the law could have made him, if he had kept it perfectly. The end of the law is righteousness; that is, the fulfilling of it; and he that hath Christ will see the law fulfilled in Christ, and the righteousness of Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. “The end of the law” is to make a man righteous, and Christ does make righteous everyone who believes in him. The act of faith in Christ accomplishes what all the good works in the world never can accomplish.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Even the law itself has this for its main drift and purpose, — that it may introduce Christ. Its end, its intent, is to show to us our need of Christ, to point us to Christ, and to make us willing to have Christ as our Saviour; and as even the law aims at this object,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. This is the very essence of the gospel, that believing in Christ brings to sinners a righteousness which they can never obtain in any other way.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. There is the point — to believe: to have faith. It is that which gives us the righteousness of which Christ is the sum total.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. If we get Christ by believing, we have the righteousness of the law. All that ever could come to us by the highest and most perfect obedience to the law, we get by faith in Christ Jesus.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For. Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law,.... In this, and some following verses, an account is given of the two righteousnesses before mentioned, called their own and the righteousness of God; and that chiefly in the words of Moses, which is wisely done by the apostle, he and his writings being in great esteem among the Jews....