One Sort of Heretic That Had to Be Dealt with in the Early Churches Were Judaizes Who Tried to Drag the Law into Grace. That Same Idea of Trying to Augment the Finished Work of Jesus Christ, Who Lived a Perfect and Sinless Life and Thereby Established His Own Righteousness (Which Righteousness He Is Made Unto Us), Presents Itself as an Individual's Self-Righteousness--and a Sorry Source of Pride.