“For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”
Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. — The dual failure: Israel neither knew (γινώσκω, ginōskō) the δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē, "righteousness from God") nor submitted (ὑποτάσσω, hypotassō) to it; instead, they sought to establish (ἱστάνω, histanō) their own δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē). Works-righteousness was a rejection of God's saving justice.
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