There was still no reply. She declared that if the offender did not own up the whole class would suffer detention and the money deducted from their tuck shop proceeds. The teacher knew he was the last one likely to have done such a thing. The whole class knew that he had no done it. But the innocent one was punished, and everyone else got off free.
Believers are justified.
Those who are united with Jesus, rather than Adam, are under no condemnation. On the cross Jesus received the punishment for the sins of the world so that those who follow him may be free from the punishment for sin which is separation from God. But God sees believers as more than just 'not guilty', he sees them as 'righteous', that is to say morally prefect. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. God sees believers as perfect because he doesn't see Jim Pye, sinner, but Jesus in my place in all his righteousness and perfection.