Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in our Walk With God

by J.I. Packer

We need, then, to remember that any ideas of self-satisfied or self-righteous holiness or of a divinely imparted righteousness that in any way reduces our need for Christ’s imputed righteousness are delusive and ungodly will-o’-the-wisps. They are, indeed, contradictions in terms. The correct name for them is Pharisaism; they are not in any sense Christian holiness.