We are saved by the "righteousness of God", nothing else. If you have sinned one time while being under the law, you are destined for hell unless you have the imputed "righteousness of God".
The only way to have the "righteousness of God' imputed is by faith Alone. The works are a result of being in Christ, not the cause of it. Once one makes works the cause he has "not submitted to the righteousness of God" and has given evidence that he is under the law.
Romans 10:3-4 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Philippians 3:9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vainâ€â€if indeed it was in vain?5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.†7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.†9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Romans 10:9 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, THOU SHALT BE SAVED.
If we sin once, we are guilty of all. We cannot be made righteous before God by our own merits because we have already failed and all the good deads in the world will not remove the penalty of death that results from being found guilty from that one sin. If we sin once, we are found guilty of all and are hell bound, unless, we, through faith, are imputed with the righteousness of God. If we have sinned once, then by God's law, we are guilty and no good works can overcome this.
Our works are an evidence, always. It is only faith that can save us, because it is only by faith that we can receive the imputed righteousness of God. If we have sinned once we are guilty of all.
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
God, by His mercy, He provided a way, an advocate.
1 Peter 3:18 "For Christ also hath ***once*** suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God."
1 Peter 2:24 "Who [Jesus] his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness."
Jesus suffered God's wrath that was due to us. He went to the cross sinless, the only substitute that was acceptable to God, the perfect Lamb of God.
Paul tells us...
Romans 3:28,31 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law...Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
What Paul is saying is that God's justice, His law, required payment for our sin, and the law is not made void, but established because Jesus died for us. If their was no law, Jesus would not have needed to die for us.
Faith results in us receiving the righteousness of God. The righteousness of God is Jesus' imputed righteousness.
Romans 3:21 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.
But the law does not go away for those NOT in Christ, they will be judged by the Law. We are "in Christ", so we are not under the Law, but grace.
Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Those who think that they can overcome God's wrath by any means other than the righteousness of God alone, which is through faith alone, are giving evidence that they are still under the law.
Romans 10:3-4 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us."
Galatians 2:16 "By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
Only the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD can save you.
Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just[ified] shall live by faith." See Hebrews 11
Romans 4:1-5 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Again, if you trust in your works you will hear "Depart from Me, I never knew you", because...
Romans 10:3-4 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
This is our righteousness absent of the righteousness of God.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
From the same book, speaking of the righteousness of God which justifies.
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me,†Says the LORD.
Isaiah 61:10 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Ephesians 2:8-10 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Romans 5:1 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have[a] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
The only way to have the "righteousness of God' imputed is by faith Alone. The works are a result of being in Christ, not the cause of it. Once one makes works the cause he has "not submitted to the righteousness of God" and has given evidence that he is under the law.
Romans 10:3-4 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Philippians 3:9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vainâ€â€if indeed it was in vain?5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.†7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.†9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Romans 10:9 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, THOU SHALT BE SAVED.
If we sin once, we are guilty of all. We cannot be made righteous before God by our own merits because we have already failed and all the good deads in the world will not remove the penalty of death that results from being found guilty from that one sin. If we sin once, we are found guilty of all and are hell bound, unless, we, through faith, are imputed with the righteousness of God. If we have sinned once, then by God's law, we are guilty and no good works can overcome this.
Our works are an evidence, always. It is only faith that can save us, because it is only by faith that we can receive the imputed righteousness of God. If we have sinned once we are guilty of all.
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
God, by His mercy, He provided a way, an advocate.
1 Peter 3:18 "For Christ also hath ***once*** suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God."
1 Peter 2:24 "Who [Jesus] his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness."
Jesus suffered God's wrath that was due to us. He went to the cross sinless, the only substitute that was acceptable to God, the perfect Lamb of God.
Paul tells us...
Romans 3:28,31 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law...Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
What Paul is saying is that God's justice, His law, required payment for our sin, and the law is not made void, but established because Jesus died for us. If their was no law, Jesus would not have needed to die for us.
Faith results in us receiving the righteousness of God. The righteousness of God is Jesus' imputed righteousness.
Romans 3:21 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.
But the law does not go away for those NOT in Christ, they will be judged by the Law. We are "in Christ", so we are not under the Law, but grace.
Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Those who think that they can overcome God's wrath by any means other than the righteousness of God alone, which is through faith alone, are giving evidence that they are still under the law.
Romans 10:3-4 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us."
Galatians 2:16 "By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
Only the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD can save you.
Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just[ified] shall live by faith." See Hebrews 11
Romans 4:1-5 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Again, if you trust in your works you will hear "Depart from Me, I never knew you", because...
Romans 10:3-4 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
This is our righteousness absent of the righteousness of God.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
From the same book, speaking of the righteousness of God which justifies.
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me,†Says the LORD.
Isaiah 61:10 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Ephesians 2:8-10 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Romans 5:1 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have[a] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,