The major emphasis in justification is that it is an act of God. We are not capable of doing it for ourselves. God justifies an individual on the basis of the merits of Christ. God declares the sinner cleansed from sin, released from sin's penalty, and restored as righteous in God's sight. Remission means that the justified believer is freed from the demands of the law because those demands have been satisfied in Christ.
Remission is more than pardon from sin.
It is a declaration by God that the sinner's guilt is forgiven in Christ. Restoration means to be declared personally righteous in Christ. Sinners are not simply acquitted, they are restored as if they had never sinned. God-bestowed righteousness means to be made right in God's sight because of Christ's presence in the believer. But God has brought you into union with Christ Jesus, and God has made Christ to be our wisdom.