Jesus Is Your Righteousness

Christ had no sin, but God made Him become sin so that in Christ we could become right with God. --2 Corinthians 5:21

Because of God you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God. In Christ we are put right with God, and have been made holy, and have been set free from sin. --1 Corinthians 1:30

I think that all things are worth nothing compared with the greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him, I have lost all those things, and now I know they are worthless trash. This allows me to have Christ and to belong to Him. Now I am right with God, not because I followed the law, but because I believed in Christ. God uses my faith to make me right with Him. --Philippians 3:8-9

The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham: "Abraham believed God, and God accepted Abraham's faith, and that faith made him right with God." So you should know that the true children of Abraham are those who have faith. --Galatians 3:6-7

God makes people right with Himself through their faith in Jesus Christ. This is true for all who believe in Christ, because all people are the same. --Romans 3:22

All have sinned and are not good enough for God's glory, and all need to be made right with God by His grace, which is a free gift. They need to be made free from sin through Jesus Christ. God gave Him as a way to forgive sin through faith in the blood of Jesus' death. This showed that God always does what is right and fair, as in the past when He was patient and did not punish people for their sins. And god gave Jesus to show today that He does what is right. God did this so He could judge rightly and so He could make right any person who has faith in Jesus. --Romans 3:23-26

But people cannot do any work that will make them right with God. So they must trust in Him, who makes even evil people right in His sight. Then God accepts their faith, and that makes them right with Him. --Romans 4:5

One man sinned, and so death ruled all people because of that one man. But now those people who accept God's full grace and the great gift of being made right with Him will surely have true life and rule through the one man, Jesus Christ. --Romans 5:17

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was shown, He saved us because of His mercy. It was not because of good deeds we did to be right with Him. He saved us through the washing that made us new people through the Holy Spirit. --Titus 3:4-5

The law was without power, because the law was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent His own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending His Son to be an offering to pay for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin. He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit. --Romans 8:3-4

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith. --Romans 9:30

Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God. --Romans 8:10

God knew them before He made the world, and He decided that they would be like His Son so that Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers. God planned for them to be like His Son; and those He planned to be like His Son, He also called; and those He called, He also made right with Him; and those He made right, He also glorified. --Romans 8:29-30

"I will build you using fairness. You will be safe from those who would hurt you, so you will have nothing to fear. Nothing will come to make you afraid. I will not send anyone to attack you, and you will defeat those who do attack you. See, I made the blacksmith. He fans the fire to make it hotter, and he makes the kind of tool he wants. In the same way I have made the destroyer to destroy. So no weapon that is used against you will defeat you. You will show that those who speak against you are wrong. These are the good things my servants receive. Their victory comes from me," says the LORD. --Isaiah 54:14-17

We believe with our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we use our mouths to say that we believe, and so we are saved. --Romans 10:10