Romans 3:21-26

We are convicted under the Law and 

saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. 

We cannot earn eternal life with God it is His gift to those who accept Jesus Christ as the Lord of their life. In our gratitude for God’s mercy we do good works worthy of His calling. 

Faith alone pleases the Father.

God provided His only begotten Son as a living 


sacrifice providing the only way back to Him. 

Christ Jesus, all God and all 

man, died in our place to receive the punishment 

that we deserved so that we could have eternal life with Him.

In this context the righteousness of God is not an attribute of God, but an act of God whereby He declares a sinner righteous. This is righteousness from God. 

No one can live up to what God created us to be; we all fall short of His glory. 

We cannot save ourselves because as sinners we can never meet God’s requirements. Our only hope is faith in Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus died to provide redemption, which means He died to pay the price required to ransom sinners. Because of Christ’s death, God does not compromise His holiness when He forgives a sinner.

Romans 3:21-26

²¹ But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, ²² even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, ²⁶ to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

¹¹ But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.” 

Acts 15:11

⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 

John 5:46

¹⁰ Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 

1 Peter 1:10

¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 

Romans 10:12

²² But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 

Galatians 3:22