John Bunyan Quotes About Righteousness

• Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

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  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.89

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• And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

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  John Bunyan (1853). “The Works of John Bunyan: With an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries ...”, p.303

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• Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

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  John Bunyan (1853). “The Works of John Bunyan: With an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries ...”, p.303

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• I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.

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  John Bunyan (1811). “Choice Works: Containing Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble: The World to Come, Or Visions of Heaven and Hell: The Barren Fig-tree: and The River of Water of Life”, p.75

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• He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.

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  John Bunyan (1767). “The Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: Grace abounding to the chief of sinners. A confession of my faith, and a reason of my practice. Differences in judgment about water-baptism, no bar to communion. Peaceable principles and true. The doctrine of the law and grace unfolded. The pilgrim's progress. The Jerusalem sinner saved. The heavenly footman. Solomon's temple spiritualized. The acceptable sacrifice. Sighs from hell. Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. A discourse upon t”, p.606

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• Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life.

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  John Bunyan, George Offor (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan: Accurately Reprinted from the Authors Own Editions ; Wth Editorial Prefaces, Notes, and Life of Bunyan”, p.134

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• There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

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  John Bunyan, George Offor (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan: Accurately Reprinted from the Authors Own Editions ; Wth Editorial Prefaces, Notes, and Life of Bunyan”, p.721

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