Righteousness of God

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This is treated of in Rom. 3, and consists in the consistency of God with His own revealed character of perfect truth and justice. It here shows that Christ has by His death taken the sinner’s place, and so fully met the claims of justice, that the sinner who believes in Him, is not only pardoned but justified from all things by the righteousness of God. The expression occurs eight times in the Romans (Romans 1:17; 3:5,21,22,25,26; 10:317For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (Romans 1:17)
5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) (Romans 3:5)
21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: (Romans 3:21‑22)
25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Romans 3:25‑26)
3For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. (Romans 10:3) [twice]). It is contrasted with human or legal righteousness in iii. 21, and further down is used in a double way; first of all to mean God’s consistency with His own character, “that He might be just” (compare His righteousness, ver. 25, 26); and secondly, “and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” that we are justified, this righteousness put upon us, (compare righteousness of God ver. 21, 2). The former is thus God’s own, the other, what is put on us. The proof that the righteousness of God was fully met by the work of Christ is seen in His raising Him up from the dead (Rom. 6:44Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)). Hence it is said that Christ was raised again for our justification.