Romans 4: 1-8:

What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? ² For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 

If Abraham was justified by works, there would be no need for faith. If we could be forgiven just by doing "good" acts, there would be no need of true repentance as long as you do a good deed after a sin to justify you.

 ³ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

Here it says clearly that he believed God, and that belief counted as righteousness. Faith is more powerful than "good" works.

⁴ Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 

If you work, your paycheck isn't considered a gift, it's considered your due. If you don't work for it, and it's given to you, that's when it's a gift.

 ⁵ And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ⁶ just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

He who believes will be counted as righteous, because he believed in God.


 

⁷ “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
    and whose sins are covered;
⁸ blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”

Whoever sin is forgiven, that person is blessed... If you believe and are counted as righteous, you are blessed.

Romans 3:21-31 (ESV)

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

²¹ But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— ²² the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 

 Everyone can be cleansed through faith in Jesus, you just got to believe. We all sin, so we all fall short of His glory.

 ²⁴ and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

 Because Jesus died, we are forgiven by his blood.

  ²⁶ It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

 In His righteousness, and His mercy, He has now given us the lamb we need for our sins to be washed away for good. You just got to believe in Jesus and you will be justified.

²⁷ Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

 Our works is nothing to boast about, our works, our good deeds, are like dirty rags. By our faith, we are saved.

  ²⁸ For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. ²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, ³⁰ since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 

 God is God of all, not to just one nation, but to ALL the nations.

 ³¹ Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

By this faith, we will keep the law, we will want to do what is pleasing to God, so we will keep this law because we want to.

Romans 3: 19-20 (Special edition... and by special, I mean kinda weird)

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(finishing the text from the video above): His son to earth. Because we couldn't do it.

Romans 3: 9-18

 (Note: when I say "we" in this post, I mean as in humans, not as Christians in particular, but in the whole human race.)

⁹ What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

 Both Jews and Greeks are under sin, so we are both at fault.

  ¹⁰ as it is written:

“None is righteous, no, not one;
¹¹     no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.

 No one seeks for God, so no one understands. There is none who is righteous, not even one. We have a habit to run from righteousness because the world says that is weird.  We need to get over that.

¹² All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    no one does good,
    not even one.”

 We have a knack for turning aside from one thing, to another thing that catches our eye, and thus, a snare closes.  We'll follow God, but we'll see something, and then follow that, it's kinda funny how little our attention span is.

¹³ “Their throat is an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

 We must watch our tongues, or it can lead to disastrous areas.

¹⁴     “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶     in their paths are ruin and misery,
¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known.”
¹⁸     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

 It's funny how we are quick to anger, but slow to love, quick to strike, but slow to turn the other cheek. We tend to actually reverse what Christ said, not just not do it, but reverse it.  We tend to have no thought on what right or wrong is, but only think on what will be good for us.  We have a habit of loving ourselves more than our neighbor, we have a habit of disrespecting our parents, we have a habit of taking what we want even though it doesn't belong to us.  We (as Christians) need to be a light to the world.  Don't just tell them, that is useless, unless you actually live it.  Actions speak louder than words, so let your actions speak for you.

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