Philippians 3:9
... not having a righteousness of my own that comes through the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness of God that depends on faith.
Paul has spent the last few verses describing how the "righteousness" that comes through the law is rubbish and the only gain, or profit, is the righteousness that, as he describes here, depends on faith in Jesus. If we are working away at a righteousness that is based on the law it either results in failure and feeling condemnation or, we think we have suceeded and we become self-righteouss.. which is actually failure. I need to be reminded every day to not look to my own righteousness but to the righteousness of God that depends on faith.
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