Romans 10:4-6

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

⁴For^[a] Christ is the end^[b] of the Law for^[c] righteousness for everyone believing.

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

⁵For Moses writes [in Lev 18:5] as to the righteousness of the Law that “The person having done them will live by them”. ⁶But the righteousness of faith speaks^[d] as follows: “Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up into heaven?”, that is, to bring^[e] Christ down,

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Footnotes

Romans 10:4 This sentence summarizes the heart of their ignorance, the relationship between Christ, Law, righteousness, faith, and works.
Romans 10:4 Or, fulfillment, completion, termination, goal.
Romans 10:4 Paul may mean ‘for purposes of righteousness’; or, ‘so that there may be righteousness’.
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.
Romans 10:6 The righteousness by faith does not ask who will bring the Messiah down from heaven, because He has already come.

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