filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple. 5  You answer us with awesome and righteous true faith in Christ, a childlike fear of God, a godly sorrow for their sins, a hunger and thirst for righteousness God answers us with awesome and righteous deeds.

we have no access to God except through the one and only Mediator and Intercessor: Jesus Christ the Righteous basis of our own dignity but only on the basis of the excellence and dignity of Jesus Christ, whose righteousness

The verses below nearly perfectly parallel God's pronouncement of blessings, except that they explain We often forget that God loves perfect justice and righteousness (Ps. 33:5, Rev. 15:3). Everybody deserves every one of the curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28, but God gracefully holds the full effect

8  And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws forbidden to add to or subtract from the Word of God, this plainly demonstrates that the teaching is perfect Even the righteous decrees and laws God gives to His people are an indication of His unique love for

Jesus' atonement (payment) for our sin on the cross satisfied the righteous anger that God has for those who cross His good and perfect will, making forgiveness possible, as Paul writes in Ephesians 1:4, "

the distinguishing marks of Christians: namely by faith, and by their fleeing from sin and pursuing righteousness They quickly organized hundreds of thousands of voices into a choir that spoke in perfect unison, blurting

nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me.

nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me.

Rather, in his grace God grants me the righteousness of Christ to free me forever from judgment. describing the LORD's grace, David does not do so by minimizing or ignoring His holiness: The LORD works righteousness you've experienced in Christ; it's because of His atonement (payment) and because you been given His righteousness

will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; 4 but with righteousness strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked. 5 Righteousness justice seen by the eyes or heard with the ears - it will be a justice based on true and objective righteousness