His Words: What Jesus Is Known For

"And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS." (Romans 8:10)

"My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the RIGHTEOUS. He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, 'I know Him,' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps HIS WORD, truly the love of God is perfected (has been completed) in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk JUST AS HE WALKED." (1 John 2:1-6)

"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine (His words), and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock." (Matthew 7:24,25)

"For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of RIGHTEOUSNESS, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them."(2 Peter 2:21)

"For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you. Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified. But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified."  (2 Corinthians 13:4-6) These were qualified by what Jesus is known for- the word of the cross of Christ had become theirs! They had been made the righteousness of God by His word.