The penalty and the precept are fulfilled in Jesus

While God pardons, He by no means clears the guilty. His people are absolved, because they are righteous; they have fulfilled the law, and suffered its penalty, in the death and obedience of Jesus Christ, with whom they are one. … The penalty and the precept are fulfilled in Jesus Christ the surety. ^{HALDANE, ROMANS}

The verb justify means to declare righteous … no legal fiction but a legal reality of the upmost significance, to be justified means to be acquitted by God from all charges that could be brought against a person because of his or her sins. ^{MOO 227}

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