God’s provided righteousness involves more than declaring believers righteous on the basis of faith. He declared the duty to reject sin and do what is right because of the new life received in Christ. Paul argued that it would be a perversion of grace to argue that since grace results in freedom and [grace] increases where sin increases, people should continue in sin so that grace can abound. Paul contended that those who have been justified by Christ have died to the power of sin, which no longer