But what does it help you now that you believe all this?
In Christ I am righteous before God and heir to life everlasting.
Proofs
- In Christ I am righteous before God and heir to life everlasting. (Habakkuk 2:4; John 3:36; Romans 1:17; Romans 5:1–2)
Related questions
- #AOC58But when thou believest all these things, what profit redoundeth thence unto thee? (An Orthodox Catechism)That I am righteous in Christ before God, and an Heir of eternal Life.
- #GC114What good comes to us from this faith, when we have it? (Genevan Catechism)It justifies us before God, and makes us obtain eternal life.
- #GC115How so Is not man justified by good works in a holy life and in conformity to God? (Genevan Catechism)If any one be found so perfect, he might well be deemed righteous, but since we are all poor sinners, we must look elsewhere for a worthiness in which to make answer before the judgment of God.
- #WLC70What is justification? (Westminster Larger Catechism)Justification is an act of God’s free grace unto sinners, in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight; not for any thing wrought in them, or don...
- #BC36What is justification? (Baptist Catechism)Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith al...
- #WSC33What is justification? (Westminster Shorter Catechism)Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins and accepteth us as righteous in his sight only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us and received by faith alone...
- #AOC59How art thou righteous before God? (An Orthodox Catechism)Only by Faith in Christ Jesus. So that although my Concience accuse me that I have grievously trespassed against all the Commandments of God, and have not kept one of them, and further am as yet prone...
- #GC118Hence you conclude, that we cannot by our merits anticipate God, and so induce Him to be kind to us, but on the contrary that we do nothing but provoke Him to be against us? (Genevan Catechism)Yes. And therefore I say: merely through His goodness, without any regard to our works, He is pleased to accept us freely in Jesus Christ, imputing His righteousness to us, and does not impute our sin...
- #WLC71How is justification an act of God’s free grace? (Westminster Larger Catechism)Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God’s justice in the behalf of them that are justified; yet inasmuch as God accepteth the satisfaction fr...
- #WLC77Wherein do justification and sanctification differ? (Westminster Larger Catechism)Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification, yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness of Christ; in sanctification his Spirit infuseth grace, and e...