Romans Chapter 3 Vs. 26

 

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Rom 3:26

at this time... God is now ready to declare His readiness to impart His righteousness by faith to penitents and can now be just in justifying them by His grace (Rom. 3:24-26).

his righteousness... Greek: dikaiosune. Found 92 times and always translated "righteousness." The English word is found 305 times in Scripture. It always means the doing of what is right.

Fourteen Facts about Righteousness

1. Revealed in the gospel (Rom. 1:17)

2. Not commended by unrighteousness (Rom. 3:5)

3. Manifested apart from law (Rom. 3:21)

4. Witnessed by the law and prophets

5. Freely given to all alike (Rom. 3:22-25)

6. Imputed by faith without works or law (Rom. 3:22; 4:3, 4:5, 4:13, 4:22)

7. It is God’s righteousness in remitting sins through Christ (Rom. 3:25; 1Jhn. 1:9)

8. It is Christ’s righteousness because He did all that was required of God to redeem people (Rom. 5:18; 2Cor. 1:1-24;30)

9. The medium of grace reign (Rom. 5:21)

10. A requirement of saints (Rom. 6:13-20)

11. It produces life (Rom. 8:10)

12. The law required it, but could not give it (Rom. 8:4; 9:31-32; 10:4-6)

13. Produced by Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17)

14. Conditions of receiving it (Rom. 3:22; Rom. 4:1-5;11; 6:13-19; 8:1-10; 10:9-10)

Paul was so insistent that God’s righteousness be recognized that (Rom. 3:26) he repeated (from Rom. 3:25) the words to demonstrate His justice (dikaiosynēs, “righteousness”). God’s purpose in the redemptive and propitiatory death of Jesus Christ was so that He could be seen to be just (dikaion, “righteous”) and the One who justifies (dikaiounta, “the One who declares righteous”) the man who has faith in Jesus. God’s divine dilemma was how to satisfy His own righteousness and its demands against sinful people, and at the same time how to demonstrate His grace, love, and mercy to restore rebellious, alienated creatures to Himself. The solution was the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God’s incarnate Son, and the acceptance by faith of that provision by individual sinners. Christ’s death vindicated God’s own righteousness (He is just because sin was “paid for”) and enables God to declare every believing sinner righteous.