You can’t profess to be in Christ as a born-again Christian {{ and }} believe and call yourself an unrighteous sinner, justified in your sin, forgiven and saved by grace alone; that works is irrelevant and not applicable. Somebody has lied to you, and you are deceived.
You can try to change my mind, but you won’t.
Isaiah 45:24 ( KJV 1900 )
24
Surely, shall one say, in the Lord
have I righteousness and strength: Even
to him shall men come; And all that are
incensed against him shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 51:7 ( KJV 1900 )
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Hearken unto me, ye that know
righteousness, The people in whose heart is
my law; Fear ye not the reproach of men,
Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
John 14:23 ( KJV 1900 )
23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If
a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Romans 2:15 ( KJV 1900 )
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Which shew the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their
thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Romans 3:21–22 ( KJV 1900 )
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But now the righteousness of God without
the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even
the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 5:17–19 ( KJV 1900 )
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For if by one man’s offence death reigned
by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the
gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
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Therefore as by the offence of one judgment
came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of
one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19
For as by one man’s disobedience many
were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made
righteous.
Romans 6:13 ( KJV 1900 )
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Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto
God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness unto God.
Romans 8:4 ( KJV 1900 )
4
That the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:9–10 ( KJV 1900 )
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But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead
because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 10:10 ( KJV 1900 )
10
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 14:17 ( KJV 1900 )
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and
drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
1 Corinthians 1:30 ( KJV 1900 )
30 But
of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
2 Corinthians 3:3 ( KJV 1900 )
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Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to
be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but
with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in
fleshy tables of the heart.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ( KJV 1900 )
21 For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him.
Galatians 2:20 ( KJV 1900 )
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I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now
live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me.
Ephesians 3:16–17 ( KJV 1900 )
16 That
he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by
faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 4:24 ( KJV 1900 )
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And that ye put on the new man, which after
God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Philippians 3:9 ( KJV 1900 )
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And be found in him, not having mine own
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the
faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
1 Thessalonians 5:23 ( KJV 1900 )
23 And
the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole
spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Titus 2:11–12 ( KJV 1900 )
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For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men,
12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in
this present world;