invites the believer to believe even more fully—as one has accepted the meaning of Christ’s death and resurrection for reconciliation with God, one should also accept its implications for one’s new life. Believers being righted168 is God’s perfect gift in Christ; new behavior may now proceed from a new identity, rather than from trying to achieve a right identity by one’s own imperfect behaviors. New behavior is thus achieved not by weighing temptation as if nothing decisive has happened but by