Lesson: Righteousness

Be sure to read the whole chapter and the related verses in your KJV Bible before starting to answer these questions.

  1. Define what the word righteousness means and write out the verse in which it was found.
  2. What is God's standard of right?
  3. Who alone possesses absolute holiness?
  4. By what characteristics is God identified in Isaiah 6:3 and Isaiah 57:15?
  5. What does Isaiah 64:6 reveal about man's righteousness as seen through the eyes of God?
  6. What are the two basic doctrines taught in Romans chapter one verse 18 through chapter 3 verse 20?
  7. The Holiness of God demands that unrighteousness be dealt with on a just basis. In Romans 1:18, what do we find is revealed from heaven against the unrighteousness of man?
  8. In Romans 3:9-12, how many are righteous? How many are good? How many are without sin?
  9. Romans 3:19 says the law was given "...that every mouth may be ________ , and all the world may become ___________ before God."
  10. What does Romans 3:19-20 reveal as the purpose of the law?
  11. Can a person who fails to keep the law perfectly, be saved by the law? How many keep the law perfectly? How many then will be saved by keeping the law?
  12. What does a person who is an unrighteousness sinner need in order to be saved?
  13. Romans 3:21-22 begins to reveal God's solution to man's sin and guilt problem by saying "But now" the _______________ of God _______________ the law is manifested......"
  14. Romans 3:21-22 identifies this righteousness of God as being offered to all men but applied to only "...them that ____________.....".

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