The righteousness of God The phrase ‘the righteousness of God’ in Romans 3:21 and 22 recalls 1:17 and 3:5 (NIV’s ‘righteousness from God’ is an unnecessary interpretive rendering that confines the meaning).5 In verses 25 and 26 ‘his righteousness’ is found twice in reference to God. The phrase occurs twice more in Romans 10:3. Nowhere else does Paul use the expression except in 2 Corinthians 5:21. Outside the Pauline literature it occurs in Matthew 6:33, James 1:20 and 2 Peter 1:1 with a meaning
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