Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 10:4

"For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth." — Romans 10:4 (ASV)

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

This is the very essence of the gospel, that believing in Christ brings to sinners a righteousness which they can never obtain in any other way.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

He has put the law away so far as his own people are concerned; and, by that act, he has removed the possibility of self-righteousness, since we are no longer under the law. Though there can come no condemnation to us by it, there certainly can come no righteousness by it. Even Christ's own people can never have any righteousness which comes by the law; they must look to Christ, and find in him alone all that can be demanded by the law, for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.

Christ is the ultimatum of the law; and when we go to the law, accepted and protected by him, we present to the law all that it can possibly demand of us. Christ has fulfilled the law on behalf of all who believe in him, so that its curse is abolished for all of us who approach it through Christ.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

If we get Christ by believing, we have the righteousness of the law. All that ever could come to us by the highest and most perfect obedience to the law, we get by faith in Christ Jesus.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

"The end of the law" is to make a man righteous, and Christ does make righteous everyone who believes in him. The act of faith in Christ accomplishes what all the good works in the world never can accomplish.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.

Even the law itself has this as its main drift and purpose: that it may introduce Christ. Its end, its intent, is to show us our need of Christ, to point us to Christ, and to make us willing to have Christ as our Saviour; and since even the law aims at this object, much more clearly does the gospel. Oh, that none of us might miss the aim and object of this blessed design of God—that we might find righteousness through believing in Christ.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (Romans 10:4)

Whoever believes in Christ is as righteous as the law could have made him, if he had kept it perfectly. The end of the law is righteousness; that is, its fulfilling; and whoever has Christ will see the law fulfilled in Christ, and the righteousness of Christ applied to himself.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

There is the point – to believe: to have faith. It is that which gives us the righteousness of which Christ is the sum total.