Romans 3:9-31 explains the only way to be righteous before God is through faith in the Savior, Jesus Christ. Pastor Paul van Engelenhoven declares the greatest need of all is righteousness; the judgment of the law is that none is righteous; the purpose of the Law: that every mouth is stopped; and the great gift of justification: Jesus Christ the Righteous who is received by faith alone. “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law… the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.”
Heidelberg Catechism: Lord’s Day 23