Beloved Ones, You are not who you once were. Yet, many of you continue to think of yourselves as what you were when you were called. But God chose the foolish, weak, lowly, and despised things of the world…the things that are not…to shame the wise, strong, and proud…to nullify them, so that no one may boast. You are in Christ Jesus, who has become for you wisdom from God – your righteousness, holiness, and redemption. You, who are in Christ, are a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! God made Him who had no sin, to be sin for you, so that in Him you might become the righteousness of God. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
Through the good news of the Gospel, a righteousness from God has been revealed to you, a righteousness that comes from faith…from the first to the last. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. Continue in the faith of the completed work of Jesus on the cross. The righteous will live by faith. Resist the temptation to shrink back into trying to establish your own righteousness, which is by the law. Be submitted to the righteousness of God. Christ in you, the hope of glory! Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes…to everyone who puts their trust in the truth of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Be filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ! Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!
1 Corinthians 1:27-31; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21; Romans 1:17, 3:22; 10:3-4; Colossians 1:27; Philippians 1:11; Isaiah 60:1
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