Not Having Mine Own Righteousness (Bible) Poem by Molaire Jules

ISAIAH 64: 6-8 (Gal 2: 16)


But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.


PHILIPIANS 3: 9 (*probable comparisons: Gal 4: 4,5; 5: 18)

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: