5. The Righteousness of God

The Bible uses some words of which comprehension for the purpose of realizing its message is extremely important.

One of these words that are being found here quite often is that of the righteousness.

The closest meaning of this is of being ”faultless”, ”guiltless”, ”sinless”.

There is a special kind of God pleasing people, called in the Bible as ”the righteous”.

Now, as a righteous man is faultless, or in other words ”sinless”, there couldn’t be anyone that is righteous, because ”10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.“ (Romans 3.10)

All persons are sinful and therefore mortal.

If somebody would be faultless, that is sinless, he wouldn’t die any more.

This is exactly the state / condition in which God would like to set us, by giving us His righteousness:

”18 ... as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”

(Romans 5.18,19)

This second man is Jesus Christ.