Dear Reader,

From the quiet hours where only truth and Scripture speak, I write to you.

We possess no righteousness of our own. Not one of us. From the first Adam to the last soul breathing today, every heart is bent, every deed stained, and every attempt at goodness falls short before the perfect holiness of God. The law reveals what we cannot do; the prophets declare what we cannot be. Our best efforts are as filthy rags, and our deepest virtues cannot atone for even a single transgression.

This is why our only hope, our only boast, is Jesus Christ.

He who knew no sin became sin for us. He lived the flawless life the law demanded, then bore its full curse in our place upon the cross. There, the sinless One absorbed the wrath we deserved so that, by simple faith, His perfect righteousness could be credited to us. Not earned. Not achieved. Imputed. Freely given. Reckoned to every sinner who trusts in Him alone.

Therefore, the redeemed no longer look within for merit. We look to Christ. Our standing before God is not based on what we have done, but on what He has done. We are clothed in His obedience, washed in His blood, and accepted in the Beloved. This is the glorious exchange of the gospel: our guilt for His goodness, our shame for His glory.

Let all self-boasting fall silent. Let every tongue confess that our righteousness is Christ Himself — the Lord our Righteousness. In Him we stand complete, justified, and secure, not because we are worthy, but because He is.This is our confidence. This is our song.

With solemn joy and reverence,
The Poet

Here are the KJV verses that form the foundation:

Romans 3:10-11
There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.

Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight.

Galatians 3:10
Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

2 Corinthians 5:21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Romans 3:22
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.

Romans 4:3
Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

1 Corinthians 1:30-31
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:6
This is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

No son of Adam owns a thread
Of righteousness to veil his shame;
The heart is bent, the will is dead,
And every tongue is mute to claim
A single deed that heaven will own.
As it is written, none is just—
All turned aside, all overthrown,
And filthy rags are all their trust.

The law, a blaze of holy fire,
Demands perfection none can bring;
It searches thought and deep desire
And leaves the sinner stripped of wing.
From Eden’s gate to Sinai’s stone,
The sentence thunders, sharp and clear:
“Cursed is the man who fails in one”—
And every man has failed, stands bare.

Yet God, before the worlds were framed,
Beheld the ruin of our race
And gave His Son, the Second Adam,
To run the course we could not face.
Christ lived the life the law required,
Fulfilled its every righteous claim;
Then, lifted high, the Lamb expired,
Bearing our curse, absorbing blame.

O matchless grace! The sinless One
Was made our sin on cursed wood;
That we, through faith in God’s own Son,
Might stand in Him as righteous, good.
Not by our works, but by His merit,
The Father counts us justified;
Imputes to us His Spirit’s credit—
The very righteousness of Christ.

Now robed in garments not our own,
The redeemed lift no boast apart;
Their glory is the cross alone,
The wounds that healed the sinner’s heart.
In Jesus Christ they stand complete,
Accepted in the Beloved’s face;
No flesh may glory in the street,
But only in the Lord’s embrace.

This is the everlasting song
Of every soul whom grace has won:
“Our boast is Christ, and Christ alone—
The Lord our Righteousness, the Son.”
From first to last, from death to life,
All praise ascends through Him alone;
Imputed, sealed, secured by strife—
The Triune God upon the throne.