Righteousness alone is not true righteousness because God’s righteousness never stands alone.
Human righteousness responds to the inadequacy of others their faults, weaknesses, and failures with the quickly drawn sword of criticism and condemnation. God’s righteousness responds with holy grace and long-suffering.
Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;” (Exodus 34:6)
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
