Romans 10:3 (WEB)
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Fathers and councils · 37
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3, 4.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Rom. 10:3.)” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“But them that are “ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seek to establish their own,” Thou wilt humble.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“…fell from the heavenly hope: to whom the blindness in part of Israel hath happened, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and wishing to establish their own.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 25; Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“Not that people “ignorant of the righteousness of God, and willing to establish their own.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“For even He the Beloved, and the Only One of the Father, “emptied Himself” of His glory; and was made man, like a child of the Jews, that were “ignorant of God’s righteousness,” and proudly boasting of their own righteousness as peculiarly theirs.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“They did not “go about to establish their own righteousness,” that they might “submit themselves to the righteousness of God.”…Behold! you are mortal; and you bear about you a body of flesh that is corrupting away: “And ye shall fall like one of the princes.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“But for that it is said, “The elder shall serve the younger;” it is manifest that under the godly are subdued the ungodly, under the humble are subdued the proud.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“Not in mine own, but in Thine own: for if in mine own, I shall be one of those whereof he saith, “Being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and their own righteousness willing to establish, to the righteousness of God they were not made subject.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“Adam became strong, over whom was reproachfully said, “Behold, Adam hath become like one of us.”…As though they were strong, “to the righteousness of God they have not been made subject.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“For some are noted by the Apostle, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, “being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own,” and not rejoicing in Thy light, and thus “not submitting themselves unto the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“For see what He addeth: “Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord through pride” (ver. 11), not knowing the righteousness of God, and wishing to establish their own, “and they were bitter against the counsel of the Most High.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“This is the law of faith, whereby we believe and pray that it may be granted us through grace; that we may effect that which we cannot fulfil through ourselves; that we may not, ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to stablish our own, fail to submit ourselves unto the righteousness of God.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“But they who have chosen to be mountains through their own righteousness, as certain Jews or Pharisees their rulers, are thus blamed: “Being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“Or indeed that Pharisee, who therefore loved little, because he thought that little was forgiven him, was it for any other reason that he was blinded by this error, than because being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish his own, he had not been made subject unto the righteousness of God?” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3
Read the whole comment“Forsooth being ignorant of the righteousness of God, which He gives unto the weak, and wishing to establish his own, of which the weak is void, he was not made subject to the righteousness of God, reprobate and proud.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3
Read the whole comment“…with this, he through whom the law was given wrote five books; and proud men, who were carnally minded, and sought to “establish their own righteousness,” were not filled with blessing by the open hand of Christ, but were debarred from such good by the hand compressed and closed; and therefore their feet were…” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3
Read the whole comment“…of some, that “not knowing the righteousness of God and going about to establish their own righteousness, they are not subject to the righteousness of God;” so also it may be said of some, that not knowing the wisdom of God and going about to establish their own wisdom, they are not subject to the wisdom of God.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3
Read the whole comment“Whence also he finds fault with the Jews in these words, “Being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and wishing to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God”).” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and wishing to establish their own, have not submitted themselves into the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment““For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and wishing to establish their own, they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“…being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God; and expressing not only his sorrow, but bitter lamentation over some who had formally sinned and had not repented of their uncleanness and fornications.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“…are also the carnal Israelites, the earth-born inhabitants of the earthly Jerusalem, who, as saith the apostle, “being ignorant of the righteousness of God,” that is, which God, who alone is just, and the justifier, gives to man, “and wishing to establish their own,” that is, which is as it were procured by their…” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“And because that nation was to suffer such wrath of God, because, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, it wished to establish its own, he immediately says, “Yet will I rejoice in the Lord; I will joy in God my salvation.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“This righteousness of God, which is the gift of grace without merits, is not known by those who go about to establish their own righteousness, and are therefore not subject to the righteousness of God, which is Christ.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“Of such were these who understood not the bread that cometh down from heaven; because being satisfied with their own righteousness, they hungered not after the righteousness of God.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“It is no wonder, then, that they could not believe, when such was their pride of will, that, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, they wished to establish their own: as the apostle says of them, “They have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“Let the self-complacent answer it, who think they have no need of God for the performance of good works.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“…to those who, “ignorant of the righteousness of God, and going about to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God;” nor to those of whom it is said, “They loved the praise of men more than the praise of God:” that the prophecy harmonizes, which finds its fulfillment in their…” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
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John Chrysostom
““For they,” says he, “being ignorant of God’s righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.” ( Rom. x. 3.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This, for example, Paul himself was laying to their charge, when he said, that “they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going aboutto establish their own, had not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“Hear Paul, saying, that “Seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 3.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Hear Paul speaking, “Seeking to set up their own righteousness, they were not subject to the righteousness of God.” [Rom 10:3]” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
“By “the whole,” He means those who “seeking to establish their own righteousness have not submitted to the true righteousness of God.” [Rom 10:3] By “the sick,” He means those who, tied by the consciousness of their frailty, and seeing that they are not justified by the Law, submit themselves in…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
““But they which were bidden,” that is the Jews, “were not worthy,” because, “ignorant of the righteousness God, and going about to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. [Rom 10:3]” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“For,” says he, “being ignorant of (the righteousness of) God, and going about to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God; for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2–4.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, 3.
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Cross-references · 25
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 3.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 81.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.12.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.12.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 7.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 81.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 81.
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 9:9–13 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 22:1–14 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 16:27–31 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 16:27–31 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 16:27–31 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 16:27–31 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 11:25–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 7.