If I may humbly interject here. We understand the same about God in many things, but I would disagree with you here and would like to express why.
In Romans 1-3 Paul is speaking about rebellious Jews, about Jews who have the Oracles of God, but do not believe them. (See Romans 1-3) These men, as Jesus teaches, "Full well Transgressed the Commandments of God" by their own doctrines and traditions. Paul said "When they knew God, they didn't Glorify Him as God". Both Paul and David teach of these rebellious men "Who profess to know God, but in works deny Him", "Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:".
Paul is teaching that you can't live the entire week in disobedience and rebellion towards God and His Judgments and Commandments, and then show up once a week with the blood of an innocent life, "as per the Law", and be justified of your willful sins. Isaiah 1 spells out the exact same thing perfectly.
IS. 1: 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the *** his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
And yet every week they show up with the blood of an innocent life, as per the Law, to justify them of their sins.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
So what does God want of them? He tells us;
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Paul teaches the exact same Gospel to both Jew and Gentile, in his rebuke of the disobedient Jews.
Rom. 2: 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation "of the righteous judgment of God";
6 Who will render to every man "according to his deeds":
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that "doeth" evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man "that worketh good", to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the "doers of the law" shall be justified.
Please consider what is actually written here and perhaps it might change your understanding of PAUL teaching in Romans and Galatians, as it did mine.
No doubt these rebellious disobedient Jews were offing to God the "Work of the Law" required for the remission of sins that the Pharisees were still promoting. God didn't want their sacrifices in Isaiah's time, and He didn't want them in Paul's Time either.
