the righteousness of God [which has come] through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all those who are faithful. Certainly in this context reading the phrase as a subjective genitive makes better sense than the objective genitive.50 If God is making manifest God’s righteousness, when Paul says that righteousness comes through the pistis iesou christou, can Paul mean that God’s righteousness would come through people having faith in Jesus? It makes little sense to say that God’s righteousness is revealed in the world because of what human beings do.
