The common understanding of righteousness is being and doing right. Its focus is the self, its guide is judgment and conditionality. This understanding of righteousness comes from our fallen nature, our ego.
Our ego’s role in maintaining its own righteousness is highlighting where others are not right, and the more instances where our ego can identify other’s faults bolsters our sense of righteousness.
True righteousness, on the other hand, is the condition of being in right relationship with the Lord. There is no other way and there is nothing we can add to our faith to obtain right relationship with the Lord; righteousness is pure grace.
Romans 11:6 "And since it is through God’s kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God’s grace would not be what it really is—free and undeserved."
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