Forgiven for his sake alone

But in what sense is this righteousness imputed to believers. In this. All believers are forgiven and accepted, not for the sake of anything in them, or of anything that ever was, that is, or ever can be done by them, but wholly and solely for the sake of what Christ has done and suffered for them. I say again, not for the sake of anything in them, or done by them, of their own righteousness or works. Not for works of righteousness which we have done, but of his own mercy he saved us (Titus 3:5). By grace you are saved through faith (Ephesians 2:8). Not of works, lest anyone should boast (Ephesians 2:9), but wholly and solely for the sake of what Christ has done and suffered for us. We are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:24). And this is not only the means of our obtaining the favor of God, but of our continuing in it. It is thus we come to God at first. It is by the same we come to him ever after. We walk in one and the same new and living way (Hebrews 10:20), until our spirit returns to God.