Paul continues to explain what “justification” is, and what it costs, and what are the implications for believers in Jesus of living in freedom.

1. Justification is founded upon a redemption which is free for all believers.
2. Justification was paid for by the immeasurably valuable two halves of redemption:
   a.Jesus’ passive obedience
   b.Jesus’ active obedience
3. Justification and Freedom

²¹But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—²²the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: ²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ²⁶It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.