_Rom. 8:10_--"_the spirit is life because of righteousness_"; _1 Cor. 1:30_--"_Christ Jesus, who was made unto us ... righteousness_"; _Rom. 10:3_--"_being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God._" Shedd, Dogm. Theol., 2:542--"The '_righteousness of God_' is the active and passive obedience of incarnate God." See, on { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}, Cremer, N. T. Lexicon, Eng. trans., 174; Meyer on Romans, trans., 68-70--"{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI~} (gen. of origin, emanation from) = rightness which proceeds from God--the relation of being right into which man is put by God (by an act of God declaring him righteous)."
E. G. Robinson, Christian Theology, 304--"When Paul addressed those who trusted in their own righteousness, he presented salvation as attainable only through faith in another; when he addressed Gentiles who were conscious of their need of a helper, the forensic imagery is not employed. Scarce a trace of it appears in his discourses as recorded in the Acts, and it is noticeably absent from all the epistles except the Romans and the Galatians."
Since this state of acquittal is accompanied by changes in the character and conduct, { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} comes to mean, secondarily, the moral condition of the believer as resulting from this acquittal and inseparably connected with it (Rom. 14:17; 2 Cor. 5:21). This righteousness arising from justification becomes a principle of action (Mat. 3:15; Acts 10:35; Rom. 6:13, 18). The term, however, never loses its implication of a justifying act upon which this principle of action is based.