The righteousness of God is in Christ―Christ the end of the law for righteousness to every believer. Christ is the object of faith and the end of the law. For though Christ was in view in the law, these words mean rather that He was its accomplishment so that the law ends in Him. He closes the ancient order of things. The whole principle of the first Adam, namely, the principle of the responsibility of man before the righteousness of God, dies in Christ. But in Him also everything recommences on a new footing. Christ is Himself God’s righteousness―righteousness which becomes the portion of the believer, and which sets him before God in a position of acceptance. It is in Jesus Christ that we pass from the first state to the second, from the responsibility that has failed to real righteousness.