Sinner's translation

Luther used three essential words to describe a sinner’s ‘translation’ from the kingdom of sin and death to the kingdom of righteousness and life – Christ, faith, and imputation. Christ alone is righteous before the heavenly Father. Christ takes your sin with its killing judgments and covers it so the Father forgets it. When the heavenly Father then comes to judge you at the last day He beholds only His Son, and what His Son imputes, or applies to you , is His own righteousness. You do not see this in the form of holiness in your own self. Faith alone clings to Christ.

Steven Paulson, Luther for Armchair Theologians. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, 2004, pp. 26-27.

Isaiah 45:5-7

I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does al these things.

Isaiah 45:5-7