Quotes About Truth

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

and the way of peace they have not known.”

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

For in my inner being I delight in Godís law.

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

It is not as though Godís word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

Because they were ignorant of Godís righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to Godís righteousness.

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ëWho will ascend into heaven?í (that is, to bring Christ down)

But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:

For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.