# 361 - Justness
Romans 3:5-31, Romans 4:1-12, Romans 5:1-2, Hebrews 4:8-12
WT#361
JUSTNESS
1. ROMANS 3:5 righteousness -- δικαιοσύνη, dikaiosunē, righteousness [justness]
the doing or being what is just and right; the character and acts of a man commanded by and approved of God, in virtue of which the man corresponds with Him and His will as His ideal and His standard; it signifies the sum total of all that God commands and approves. As such it is not only what God demands, but what He gives to man, and which is appropriated by faith [believing]; and hence it is a state called forth by God's act of justification, viz. by judicial deliverance from all that stands in the way of being δίκαιος, dikaios, just
2. ROMANS 3:10 righteous -- δίκαιος, dikaios, right [not wrong], righteous
right, just, that is to say fulfilling all claims which are right and becoming; just as it should be; a right state, of which God is the standard. Used of God, it denotes the perfect agreement subsisting between His nature (which is the standard for all) and His acts.
just
fulfilling all claims which are right and becoming. A right state (of which God and His word is the standard) so that no fault or defect can be charged. (Used of God it refers to His doings as answering to the rule which He has established for Himself.) Hence, of man it is just, conformity to God's revealed will. Also the act of God establishing a man as righteous.
3. ROMANS 3:20 be justified -- δικαιόω, dikaioō, justify
to set forth as righteous, to justify by a judicial act. By a judicial decision to free a man from his guilt (which stands in the way of his being right) and to represent him as righteous.
#1. righteousness -- δικαιοσύνη, dikaiosunē ROM 3:5, 21, 22, 25, 26. 4:3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 11, 13, 22.
#2. right, just -- δίκαιος, dikaios ROM 3:10, 26.
#3. justify -- δικαιόω, dikaioō ROM 3:20, 24, 26, 28, 30. 4:2, 5. 5:1.
counted, reckoned, imputed: λογίζομαι, logizomai, think -est, eth, thought
to occupy one's self with reckonings or calculations; hence, to reckon or count, to reason (use the reason) to think, consider, conclude.
