A new kind of being

God’s righteousness has effected a new kind of being, whose faith is the signal that their life is constructed not in the normal configuration of human existence, but from Christ. The fact that this mode of dependence is evidenced in both Jew and Gentile, among all who believe despite their common condition of sin ([Rom] 3:22–23), is a sign that the gift on which it hangs was given without discrimination and without regard to worth.—J. M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift, 477