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Whosoever is committing sin is also transgressing the Torah: for sin is the transgression of the Torah. - 1 John 3:4
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There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that is understanding, there is none that is seeking after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that is doing good, no, there is not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Romans 3:10-18 (Psalm 14 and 53)
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For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God... - Romans 3:23
So here's the good news, in a nutshell, none of us (except for the man Messiah Yahshua) have even kept all the Torah of ourselves; no, not a single one. So Y'Hovah came down to earth as a man to die, in our place, for our sins (transgressions of the Torah); and, then He filled us with His Holy Spirit, and changed our hearts, so that we (by His Spirit within us) could live a life that fulfills Torah!
That's what Paul was trying to communicate to us in Romans 3, and that why it's so important for us to understand the Torah, for the Torah is the good that God has ordained that we should walk in by Him (His Holy Spirit) inside of us. The good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them by His Spirit in us once we have been born again (been made a new creation, given a new heart, given the mind of Messiah by which we understand the Torah), is the Torah itself.
The good news is that God has given us this sacrifice, that way to be made into a new creation by grace and through faith, so that we could actually do what the Torah requires by His Holy Spirit within us! And in that way, of a truth, keeping the Torah is not legalism; for we are not keeping the Torah to be saved but, of a truth, we're doing it by Him in us because we are saved. For His desire for us, from the very beginning, is that we would live out His Torah; that's still His desire for us today, it has not changed, and He has given us a way to do it! For it is clear that if we walk by His Holy Spirit, in His understanding of His Torah, that we are fulfilling it; for, by His Holy Spirit we bear the fruit against which there is nothing in the Torah at all (Galatians 5).
Romans 3 (Complete Jewish Bible)
1 Then what advantage has the Jew? What is the value of being circumcised? 2 Much in every way! In the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God. 3 If some of them were unfaithful, so what? Does their faithlessness cancel God's faithfulness? 4 Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! - as the Tanakh says, "so that you, God, may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial."g 5 Now if our unrighteousness highlights God's righteousness, what should we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict his anger on us? (I am speaking here the way people commonly do.) 6 Heaven forbid! Else, how could God judge the world? 7 "But," you say, "if, through my lie, God's truth is enhanced and brings him greater glory, why am I still judged merely for being a sinner?" 8 Indeed! Why not say (as some people slander us by claiming we do say), "Let us do evil, so that good may come of it"? Against them the judgment is a just one! 9 So are we Jews better off? Not entirely; for I have already made the charge that all people, Jews and Gentiles alike, are controlled by sin. 10 As the Tanakh puts it, "There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands, 11 no one seeks God, 12 all have turned away and at the same time become useless; there is no one who shows kindness, not a single one! 13 "Their throats are open graves, they use their tongues to deceive. Vipers' venom is under their lips. 14 Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness. 15 "Their feet rush to shed blood, 16 in their ways are ruin and misery, 17 and the way of shalom they do not know. 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19 Moreover, we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those living within the framework of the Torah, in order that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be shown to deserve God's adverse judgment. 20 For in his sight no one alive will be considered righteousn on the ground of legalistic observance of Torah commands, because what Torah really does is show people how sinful they are. 21 But now, quite apart from Torah, God's way of making people righteous in his sight has been made clear - although the Torah and the Prophets give their witness to it as well - 22 and it is a righteousness that comes from God, through the faithfulness of Yeshua the Messiah, to all who continue trusting. For it makes no difference whether one is a Jew or a Gentile, 23 since all have sinned and come short of earning God's praise. 24 By God's grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua. 25 God put Yeshua forward as the kapparah for sin through his faithfulness in respect to his bloody sacrificial death. This vindicated God's righteousness; because, in his forbearance, he had passed over [with neither punishment nor remission] the sins people had committed in the past; 26 and it vindicates his righteousness in the present age by showing that he is righteous himself and is also the one who makes people righteous on the ground of Yeshua's faithfulness. 27 So what room is left for boasting? None at all! What kind of Torah excludes it? One that has to do with legalistic observance of rules? No, rather, a Torah that has to do with trusting. 28 Therefore, we hold the view that a person comes to be considered righteous by God on the ground of trusting, which has nothing to do with legalistic observance of Torah commands. 29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Isn't he also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, he is indeed the God of the Gentiles; 30 because, as you will admit, God is one. Therefore, he will consider righteous the circumcised on the ground of trusting and the uncircumcised through that same trusting. 31 Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, we confirm Torah.
