Who are the Righteous?

The Bride Of Christ!

     Who are the righteous Jesus was referring to in Mark 2-17 when He said, "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance?"  Who was Apostle Paul referring to in I Timothy 1-9 when he said, "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners?

The following is a quote by John Wesley, 1703 - 1791

     And the Apostle tells us expressly, the ungodly: "He (that is, God) justifieth the ungodly;" the ungodly of every kind and degree; and none but the ungodly. As "they that are righteous need no repentance," so they need no forgiveness. It is only sinners that have any occasion for pardon: It is sin alone which admits of being forgiven. Forgiveness, therefore, has an immediate reference to sin, and, in this respect, to nothing else. It is our "unrighteousness" to which the pardoning God is "merciful:" It is our "iniquity" which he "remembereth no more."

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