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Righteous Before God

"Now, however, the righteousness of God apart from the law is manifested, witnessed by the law and the prophets. Moreover, the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ toward all believing, no indeed there is no distinction..." 1 This word for manifested is phaneróō , "I make clear, visible, or manifest" (from phṓs, "light") – properly, illumine, make manifest (visible); (figuratively) make plain, in open view; to become apparent ("graspable"). What is being manifested? but the righteousness of God by faith. There was a righteousness by the law, it was for those under the law, but now there is no distinction, no one will be justified by works of the law, but by faith made righteous before God. Jesus came in the fullness of God, of Grace and Truth, He was the Word that created all things in the beginning and he was the Light of the World, in the beginning there was Light. We can say the new covenant was the original covenant as the ...