God’s righteousness, God’s being

Luther wrote: “The ‘righteousness of God’ . . . is the righteousness by which God is righteous, and we are righteous by the same righteousness, just as by the same word God makes us be and we indeed are what he is, so that we may be in him and his being may be our being.”

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