{"id":280,"date":"2007-12-19T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2022-03-12T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:22:12","slug":"romans-321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Romans 3:21"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span class=\"text Rom-3-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">But now \u2014 This is a favorite phrase of Paul&#8217;s when he has pointed out the gloom of man&#8217;s position but is about to show God&#8217;s remedy <em><u>and<\/u><\/em> a dispensational change.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Righteousness of God = Christ Himself<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Without the Law \u2014 apart from the Law. At the cross with no regard to the Law.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">revealed\u2014 the tense used refers to something that has happened in the past but still continues.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Law and prophets \u2014 The provisions of the Law (sacrifices) and the actions of the prophets bear witness to a righteousness apart from the Law. &#8220;Law and prophets&#8221; also refers to the entire Old Testament as in &#8220;The Old Testament points to the righteousness that is in Christ.&#8221;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21\u00a0But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, But now \u2014 This is a favorite phrase of Paul&#8217;s when he has pointed out the gloom of man&#8217;s position &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6368,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}