God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac –

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God – harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,