He
further attests that this righteousness,
since
it was given to me as a gift, is not based on my behavior.
I
am not his righteousness or new creation because of what I did,
or
I am doing, or what I have refrained from doing.
Rather
it is because of what He has done in uniting me to Christ in death,
burial,
resurrection, and enthronement.
Documentation:
Philippians
3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own
that comes from the law,
but
one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based
on faith.
2
Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew
no sin, so that in him we might
become
the righteousness of God.
1
Corinthians 1:30-31 He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus,
who became for us wisdom from
God,
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 in order that,
as it is written,
"Let
the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
Romans
5:17 If, because of the one man's trespass, death exercised dominion
through that one,
much
more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free
gift of righteousness
exercise
dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Romans
10:3-4 For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from
God, and seeking to
establish
their own, they have not submitted to God's righteousness. 4 For Christ
is the end of the
law
so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
Galatians
2:20-21 and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who
lives in me. And the life I now
live
in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
for me. 21 I do not
nullify
the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ
died for nothing.