9 Bible Verses About The Gift of Righteousness
9 Bible verses about The Gift of Righteousness to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
If death reigned through one man because of that one man’s trespass, it is far more certain that those who receive grace in full measure and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
So then, as one trespass meant condemnation for all people, so one righteous act means for all people that they are declared righteous and given life.
Yet they are declared righteous as a free gift, by his grace, through the redemption found in Christ Jesus.
The wages sin pays are death, but God’s free gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Christ had never known sin, yet for our sake God made him to be sin, so that, united with him, we might become God’s righteousness.
so that, as sin held its reign through death, grace in turn might reign through righteousness and lead to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
and be found in him, with no righteousness of my own from keeping the law, but with the righteousness that comes through faith in Christ: righteousness from God, resting on faith.
My joy in the LORD overflows; my whole being delights in my God. He has dressed me in clothing of salvation and wrapped me in a cloak of righteousness, like a bridegroom wearing a turban as a priest does, like a bride decked out in her jewels.
David says the same when he speaks of the happiness of the one whom God counts as righteous apart from works: