people.18 N. T. Wright’s understanding is similar. The righteousness of God, he writes, is ‘essentially the covenant faithfulness, the covenant justice, of the God who made promises to Abraham, promises of a worldwide family characterized by faith, in and through whom the evil of the world would be undone’.19 Thirdly, ‘the righteousness of God’ revealed in the gospel is a divine achievement. The genitive is now no longer subjective (as in reference to God’s character and activity), but objective