These two words, holiness and righteousness, mark two aspects of one ____.

• A. virtue
• B. condition
• C. reality
• D. doctrine

Answer: (B)

Holiness and righteousness describe the believer’s standing before God, two aspects of one condition. Righteousness points to being in right legal standing with God—deemed just through faith—while holiness refers to living in a manner set apart for God and becoming morally pure. Together they capture the whole state a person is in: declared righteous and being transformed to live out that holy relationship. They aren’t merely virtues to cultivate, nor abstract reality or merely a teaching; they define the actual condition of the believer in relation to God.