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The Essential Doctrine of Righteousness
Righteousness is a word that was first coined by William Tyndale in his translation of the first English Bible. The word can be directly defined as “right wise” or “right ways”. Less directly and more theologically, the word righteousness means to be without guilt or sin and morally justifiable. The word righteousness occurs five hundred times in the Old Testament derived from the Hebrew word tzedek. In the New Testament, righteousness is derived from the Greek word dikaios which occurs over two hundred times.