6   All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we Certainly our Father does deliver us from evil and from a host of pestilences, persecutions and problems And it's not just our weak lapses that convict us, even our righteous acts are like filthy rags!

WILL: Thank God that you (likely) are treated honestly in your work, and pray that you will prioritize righteousness

It simply is not possible, no matter how righteous a person may appear. increases every day, does not mean that you should stop asking for forgiveness or give up on walking God’s righteous

we're created in the image of a God who works and creates, it makes sense to understand that even in a perfect We also see here that one of Adam's primary objectives was to keep it that way (perfect and sin free)

As Jesus commanded you, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matthew 5:48)."

to reconcile ourselves with God than this one and only sacrifice, once made, which renders believers perfect to reconcile ourselves with God than this one and only sacrifice, once made, which renders believers perfect

Since the effects of bending the speed limit a bit or knocking off a few minutes early don't seem catastrophic wrath against anything that infringes upon or even slightly compromises that which He has decreed to be righteous your life demonstrating your gratitude for Christ's atoning for your sin by keeping God's good and perfect

And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully Because Jesus is both fully human and fully God, he was able to fulfill the righteous requirement of

ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our covenant God, the creator of all that is who has called us to a life of righteousness

But He kept the command that Adam broke, and His perfect obedience became the perfect antidote for the