who had ever kept the law perfectly and, therefore, it was only Christ’s righteousness which had any value in God’s sight. However, the incredible thing was that God gave his Son to die on the cross as his free gift to make undeserving sinners righteous. Paul realized that the only way that sinners can obtain Christ’s righteousness is by accepting it by faith (just like any other gift, it can only be accepted, not earned).3 Paul illustrates this further when he writes to the Corinthians, ‘God made