Romans 3:9-10 New International Version (NIV)
No One Is Righteous
9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any
advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and
Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
Paul is driving home the point in Romans 3 that
none of us can even approximate the perfection and holiness of God. So how do
we get there? How do we escape the stranglehold of sin? God's answer is Jesus!
I believe that must be our answer, too!
Jesus came to ransom us from sin (Mark 10:45), paying the price for our sin even while we were sinners (Romans 5:6-11). We couldn't earn our way to God by our goodness, so Jesus became our bridge back to God. The glorious truth is this:
Jesus came to ransom us from sin (Mark 10:45), paying the price for our sin even while we were sinners (Romans 5:6-11). We couldn't earn our way to God by our goodness, so Jesus became our bridge back to God. The glorious truth is this:
God made him [Jesus] who had no sin to be sin
for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians
5:21).
Thought for today:
What do I wish to break free of?
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