Becoming a Righteous Person vs. Becoming God's Righteousness
Rom 3:24 "Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"
Rom 5:1 "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God"
2 Cor 5:21 "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him"
Rom 3:28 "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law"
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Items |
Becoming a Righteous Person |
Becoming God's Righteousness |
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Meaning |
Being justified before God, obtaining righteousness in legal position |
Not only possessing righteousness but becoming the essence of righteousness, partaking of divine nature |
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Level |
Basic salvation experience |
Deeper life experience, peak of salvation |
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Essential Difference |
Counted righteous in position before God |
Life nature transformation, becoming the reality of righteousness |
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Description |
Justified by faith, sins forgiven, accepted by God |
Organic union with God in Christ, living out God's righteousness |
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Example |
Like the prodigal son accepted by the father |
Like Paul living out Christ in Philippians |
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Application |
Basic Christian life after salvation |
Manifesting God's righteous nature in daily life |
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Related Verses A: Foundation |
- Gal 2:16 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ" - Rom 4:5 "But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness" |
- Phil 3:9 "And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ" - Col 1:21-22 "Yet now He has reconciled through death...to present you holy, and blameless" |
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Related Verses B: Nature & Process |
- Gal 3:11 "But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident" - Rom 5:19 "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous" |
- 2 Cor 3:18 "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image" - 2 Pet 1:4 "That through these you may be partakers of the divine nature" |
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Related Verses C: Practice |
- James 2:17-18 "Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead...Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works" - Rom 6:13 "Present yourselves to God...and your members as instruments of righteousness to God" |
- Gal 2:20 "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" - Phil 1:21 "For to me, to live is Christ" - 2 Cor 4:10-11 "Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body" |
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Related Verses D: Results |
- Rom 5:10 "For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son" - Col 1:20 "And by Him to reconcile all things to Himself...having made peace through the blood of His cross" |
- 2 Cor 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away" - Eph 4:24 "And put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness" |
Relationship between the two:
- Progressive: From becoming righteous to becoming God's righteousness is a process of spiritual growth
- Complementary: The former is the foundation, the latter is the goal
- Essential: Both are indispensable parts of God's complete salvation plan
Key Integrating Verses:
- Rom 8:29-30 "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined...Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified"
- Titus 3:7 "That having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life"
*Please refer to Life-study of 2 Corinthians, Chapter 14, Deacons of the New Testament (VII)
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