The Grounds of Justification
Christ's Active Obedience
Justification · 5 verses
Christ's righteousness imputed to believers includes both His passive obedience—His suffering and death for our sins—and His active obedience—His perfect fulfillment of the law on our behalf. We are justified not only because our penalty was paid but because Christ earned the positive righteousness that is now credited to us.
Scripture References
“For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
“And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.”
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”
“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”