- Christ, who is God’s grace and God’s righteousness (Rom 3:23-26)
Eph 2:8, Titus 3:7, Mt 20:28, Eph 1:7, 1 Tim 2:6, Heb 9:12, 1 Pt 1:18-19
God revealed His grace and righteousness through Christ. God made Jesus the propitiation for our sins and justified those who believed in Him as the Christ. (Rom 3:23-26)
Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
We are saved by the grace of God, who gave His only begotten Son to us. (Eph 2:8, Titus 3:7)
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Jesus became God’s propitiation sacrifice to accomplish God’s righteousness. (Eph 1:7, 1 Tim 2:6, Heb 9:12, 1 Pt 1:18-19)
Eph 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
1 Tim 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
1 Pt 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: