– Action of divine grace that makes us righteous. OT Doctrine:
Job 9:2 : Yes, I know it is so. How could man be right with God?
Psalm 50 :6 : Your sentence thus appears just, and your judgment upright.
Ps 129,3 : If you consider our sins, Lord, Lord, who can stand before you?
Psalm 142 :2 : Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous in your sight.
Wis 12:12 : For who will dare to say to you: “What have you done?”. And who will oppose your judgment?
Is 29,16 : What perversity of yours! Can you treat the potter like clay? Can the work say of the craftsman: “He did nothing to me?”.
Is 45,9 : Woe to him who quarrels with the one who formed him, a vessel among earthen vessels!
Jr 12,1 : You are most righteous, Lord, that I enter into dispute with you.
Jer 18,1-6 : The word of the Lord was addressed to Jeremiah in these terms: “Go and go down to the potter’s house”.
– In the NT we were sanctified and justified by baptism:
1Cor 6,11 : But you were sanctified, but you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
– We are justified not by the Law, but by divine mercy:
Rom 3,21-31 : But now, apart from the Law, the justice of God, attested by the Law and the prophets, has been manifested.
Rom 5:10-21 : If, while we were still enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son.
Rom 6–7 : So what shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 9,19-20 : You will perhaps say to me: “Why does he still complain? Who can resist his will?”
1Cor 6,11 : You were sanctified, but you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Gal 2:21 : I do not despise the grace of God; but, verily, if justice is obtained by the Law, Christ died in vain.
Gal 5 :4 : You are already separated from Christ, you who seek justification by the Law.
– To bear fruit in every good work:
Eph 2:10 : We are his workmanship, created in Jesus Christ for good deeds.
Col 1:10 : So that you behave in a manner worthy of the Lord […] being fruitful in every good work.
1Tm 6,18 : Do good, be enriched with good works, be generous, communicative.
Titus 3:8: This doctrine is certain, and I want you to teach it with constancy and firmness, so that those who have embraced faith in God.
– See FAITH, GOOD WORKS.
