This righteousness is given through faith in[h] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
As i thought and mediate on this verse, I just want to thank God for the the salvation that He has given all of us! We only need to believe in that, belief that God had sent His son to die on the cross for all our sins. The fact that all people are not righteous is a key fact! We may think we are righteous, but to God's standards, we fall short. Our definition of righteous and God's definition is so different. God's standards are way stricter. There is no difference between anyone in the world, for everyone has sinned in the eyes of God and needs repentance.
Now what is the effect of that?
I would say that we can no longer justify ourselves, we cannot claim that we we are right and wrong in front of God, but we can only use God's standards to say this is an area we need to work on.
We can no longer judge anyone with respect to right and wrong. Because we no longer have any standards, as God has shown that His standards of people is the only standard, we cannot judge people based on our standards. We cannot also judge people based on God's standards, as for one we do not come up with those standards. two we have no right to judge them as we were also prey to the sin.
We cannot claim that our salvation is ours and rejoice. For the salvation that we receive is given to us by God.
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