Three Kinds of Righteousness

_There are three kinds of righteousness, or at least three kinds of righteousness which bear that name.  _

There is **inherent **righteousness, of which we have none.

There is **imputed **righteousness, which is all our justification.

And there is **imparted **righteousness. when God the Spirit makes us new creatures, and raises up in the heart that "new man, which after God" (that is, "after the image of God") "is created in righteousness and true holiness."

When the Lord said, "Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven," he did not mean only an **external **righteousness wrought out by his obedience to the law **for **them, but an **internal **righteousness wrought out by the Holy Spirit **in **them.
-J.C. Philpot, Through Baca's Vale