Romanos 9:31

A Biblia Sagrada

Mas Israel, que buscava a lei da justia, no chegou lei da justia.

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
e Israel, que buscava a lei de justia, no chegou a atingir essa lei.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Mas Israel, que buscava a lei da justia, no chegou lei da justia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

followed: Romans 9:30-32, Romans 10:2-4, Galatians 3:21, Philippians 3:6

hath: Romans 3:20, Romans 4:14, Romans 4:15, Romans 11:7, Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:11, Galatians 5:3, Galatians 5:4, James 2:10, James 2:11

Reciprocal: Psalms 69:27 - let them Proverbs 14:6 - scorner Isaiah 55:2 - do ye Amos 8:12 - shall run Malachi 3:2 - who may abide Luke 13:24 - for Luke 18:9 - which John 6:29 - This Acts 13:39 - from which Romans 10:3 - to establish Romans 10:6 - righteousness Galatians 5:2 - that Philippians 3:9 - not Colossians 3:11 - there

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,.... The Israelites, the far greater part of the Jews, who were not called by the grace of God, were all very zealous of the law, called "the law of righteousness"; because the matter of it was righteous, it was so in its own nature; and because perfect obedience to it is righteousness; as also because they sought for righteousness by the deeds of it. They very violently and eagerly pursued after it, they tugged and toiled, and laboured with all their might, as persons in running a race, to get up to the law, and the righteousness of it; and yet Israel, with all the pains and labour taken,

hath not attained to the law of righteousness: some of them fancied they had, supposing an external conformity to it, to be all that it insisted upon; not knowing the spirituality of it, that it required truth and holiness in the inward parts; and that he that offended in one point of it, was guilty of all, and therefore could not be justified by it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But Israel - The Jews. The apostle does not mean to affirm that none of the Jews had obtained mercy, but that “as a people,” or acting according to the prevalent principles of the nation to work out their own righteousness, they had not obtained it.

Which followed after the law of righteousness - The phrase, “the law of righteousness,” means the law of justice, or “the just law.” That Law demands perfect purity; and even its external observance demanded holiness. The Jews supposed that they rendered such obedience to that Law as to constitute “a meritorious” ground of justification. This they had “followed after,” that is, pursued zealously and unremittingly. The reason why they did not obtain justification in that way is fully stated in Rom. 1–3 where it is shown that the Law demands perfect compliance with its precepts; and that Jews, as well as Gentiles, had altogether failed in rendering such compliance.

Hath not attained to the law of righteousness - They have not come to yield true obedience to the Law, even though imperfect; not such obedience as to give evidence that they have been justified. We may remark here,

1. That no conclusion could have been more humbling to a Jew than this. It constituted the whole of the prevalent religion, and was the object of their incessant toils.

(2)As they made the experiment fully, and failed: as they had the best advantages for it, and did not succeed, but reared only a miserable and delusive system of self-righteousness Philippians 3:4-9; it follows, that all similar experiments must fail, and that none now can be justified by the Law.

(3)Thousands fail in the same attempt.

They seek to justify themselves before God. They attempt to weave a righteousness of their own. The moral man does this. The immoral man attempts it as much as the moral man, and is as confident in his own righteousness. The troubled sinner does this; and this it is which keeps him so long from the cross of Christ. All this must be renounced; and man must come as a poor, lost, ruined sinner, and throw himself upon the mere mercy of God in Christ for justification and life.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 9:31. But Israel, which followed after — But the Jews, who have hitherto been the people of God, though they have been industrious in observing a rule by which they supposed they could secure the blessings of God's peculiar kingdom, yet have not come up to the true and only rule by which those blessings can be secured.