"Personal Righteousness"

Some speak of a personal righteousness SEPARATE from Christ's righteousness imputed. Paul is clear in Philippians 3:9 that if you say you have your "OWN" righteousness (a personal one), it is "of the Law". Paul called it dung. Isaiah called it filthy rags (the menstrual kind). Still wanna claim a personal righteousness?

- Scott Price, Gospel of Grace Ministries, Okeana, Ohio


But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. - Isaiah 64:6

"The words may be rendered, "as a menstruous cloth", as some; or "as a garment of spoil or prey", as Aben Ezra, rolled in blood, either in war, or by a beast of prey; or as a foul plaster or cloth taken off a sore, with purulent matter on it, as others; or any other impure and nauseous thing. Hottinger thinks the word has some affinity with the Arabic עדד, which signifies "running water", such as the water of a fountain or well; so that the sense may be, that the church's righteousness was like a cloth, so polluted and spotted that it could not be washed out clean but with clear and running water; and, in every sense in which it may be taken, it serves to set forth the impurity and imperfection of the best righteousness of men, and to show that their works are not the cause of salvation."

- from John Gill's Bible commentary on Isaiah 64:6