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(a)  God gives a man right standing with himself, by mercifully accounting him innocent and virtuous.

(b)  God give a man right standing with himself, by actually making him into an innocent and virtuous person.

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(a)    We achieve right standing with God, by having Christ live out His life of obedience in us.

(b)   We achieve right standing with God, by accepting the fact that he obeyed the law perfectly for us.

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(a)  God give a man right standing with himself, by placing Christ’s goodness and virtue to his credit.

(b)  God give a man right standing with himself, by putting Christ’s goodness and virtue into his heart.

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(a)  We achieve right standing with God, by following Christ’s example by the help of his enabling grace.

(b)  We follow Christ’s example, because his life has given us right standing with God.

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(a)  God accepts the believer because of the moral excellence found in Jesus Christ.

(b)  God makes the believer acceptable, by infusing Christ’s moral excellence into his life.

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(a)  God first pronounces us that we are good in his sight, then gives us his Spirit to make us good.

(b)  God sends his Spirit to make us good, and then He will pronounce that we are good.

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(a)  If a Christian becomes “born again” (regenerate, transformed in character), he will achieve right standing with God.

(b)  If the sinner accepts right standing with God by faith, he will then experience transformation in character.

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(a)  Christ’s intercession at God’s right hand, gives us favour in the sight of God.

(b)  It is the indwelling Christ that gives us favour in God’s sight.

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(a)    We receive right standing with God by faith alone.

(b)   We receive right standing with God by faith which has become active by love.

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(a)  Only by faith in the doing and dying of Christ, can we fully satisfy the claims of the Ten Commandments.

(b)  By the power of the Holy Spirit living in us, we can fully satisfy the claims of the Ten Commandments.