Phoneman777 said:
Bro, "righteousness" means "right doing".
Righteousness and works comes only through believing. Righteousness is a gift by faith, not a work.
John 6:28-29 NIV Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" 29 Jesus answered, "
The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
Rom 3:21-22 NIV But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
Rom 4:22-24 NIV This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness." 23 The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness--
for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
Rom 5:17-21 NIV For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace
and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Rom 9:30-33 NIV What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. 32
Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone." 33 As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
Rom 10:3-4 NIV Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4
Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
1 Cor 1:30 NIV It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--
that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
1 Cor 15:10-11 NIV But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.
No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
2 Cor 1:9 NIV Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death.
But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
2 Cor 3:5 NIV
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
Gal 2:21 NIV I do not set aside the grace of God,
for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
Gal 3:5 NIV Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law,
or because you believe what you heard?
Phil 1:9-11 NIV And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God.
Phil 3:8-11 NIV What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
James 2:23 NIV And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “
Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.
Phoneman777 said:
The devils believe, and tremble.
If the devils profess Jesus is Lord why aren't they saved?