Right Relationship
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Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by his vast strength.
Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.
For this reason take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.
Stand, therefore, with truth like a belt around your waist, righteousness like armor on your chest,
and your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace.
In every situation take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit—which is the word of God.
Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.
Stand, therefore, with truth like a belt around your waist, righteousness like armor on your chest,
δικαιοσύνη, ης f: to cause someone to be in a proper or right relation with someone else—‘to put right with, to cause to be in a right relationship with.’
Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 451.
There are two sets of right relationships that this passage could refer to, and I believe they are both related. One is righteousness with respect to God and the other is with respect to other people. Let’s examine the first.
For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven.
as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one.
This highlights our sin problem.
Righteousness is demonstrated within the Trinity
I and the Father are one.”
Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.
When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:
About sin, because they do not believe in me;
about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
The righteousness of God is through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe, since there is no distinction.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption
He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
How should we live righteously?
Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.
For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.
All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.