Born-again believers duplicate Jesus' righteousness and true holiness while they are abiding in Him. ... They stand before God as did Jesus.

Nevertheless, the righteous fruit of abiding in Jesus must be sweetened with the perfume of Jesus' blood and righteousness to be spotless and acceptable to our heavenly Father. Not because it is sinful.

Let's say I agree with your interpretation of 1SM 344 - that true believers' fruit is not sinful, but neither is it spotless and acceptable without Jesus adding His Blue Bonnet. You say that true believers "stand before God as did Jesus." If so, who added Blue Bonnet to Christ's good works? Who perfumed His righteous fruits so they could BECOME spotless and acceptable?

The silent, fervent prayer of the soul will rise like holy incense to the throne of grace and will be as acceptable to God as if offered in the sanctuary. {AH 212.4}

It is not the length of time we labor but our willingness and fidelity in the work that makes it acceptable to God. {COL 402.3}

As we thus contemplate heavenly themes, our faith and love will grow stronger, and our prayers will be more and more acceptable to God, because they will be more and more mixed with faith and love. {CE 57.2}

Repentance, true humility, a broken heart, and a contrite spirit, alone will be acceptable to God. {CS 153.1}

Physical and mental effort, wisely combined, will keep the whole man in a condition that makes him acceptable to God. {DG 162.3}

By the Spirit every sincere prayer is indited, and such prayer is acceptable to God. {DA 189.2}

Music is acceptable to God only when the heart is sanctified and made soft and holy by its facilities. {Ev 512.1}

Through faith in Him, Christ will make all our imperfect efforts acceptable to God. {FW 48.3}

All that man can do without Christ is polluted with selfishness and sin; but that which is wrought through faith is acceptable to God. {FW 94.1}

The incense, ascending with the prayers of Israel, represents the merits and intercession of Christ, His perfect righteousness, which through faith is imputed to His people, and which can alone make the worship of sinful beings acceptable to God. {FLB 197.4}

It is not the greatness of the gift that makes the offering acceptable to God; it is the purpose of the heart, the spirit of gratitude and love that it expresses. {FLB 245.5}

Neither prayer nor almsgiving has any virtue in itself to recommend the sinner to God; the grace of Christ, through His atoning sacrifice, can alone renew the heart and make our service acceptable to God. {AG 86.4}

But are good works of no real value? Is the sinner who commits sin every day with impunity, regarded of God with the same favor as the one who through faith in Christ tries to work in his integrity? The Scripture answers, "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." In His divine arrangement, through His unmerited favor, the Lord has ordained that good works shall be rewarded. We are accepted through Christ's merit alone; and the acts of mercy, the deeds of charity, which we perform, are the fruits of faith; and they become a blessing to us; for men are to be rewarded according to their works. It is the fragrance of the merit of Christ that makes our good works acceptable to God, and it is grace that enables us to do the works for which He rewards us. Our works in and of themselves have no merit. When we have done all that it is possible for us to do, we are to count ourselves as unprofitable servants. We deserve no thanks from God. We have only done what it was our duty to do, and our works could not have been performed in the strength of our own sinful natures. {AG 331.3}

It requires earnest efforts to present ourselves a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. It takes the entire being, complete consecration, entire submission. There must be no chamber of the mind where Satan can hold sway, and carry out his devices. Self must be crucified. Sacrifices must be made that will seem like taking the very life-blood from the heart. {GW92 470.2}

In the lives of those who are partakers of the divine nature there is a crucifixion of the haughty, self-sufficient spirit that leads to self-exaltation. In its place the Spirit of Christ abides, and in the life the fruits of the Spirit appear. Having the mind of Christ, His followers reveal the graces of His character. Nothing short of this will make men acceptable to God. Nothing short of this will give them the pure, holy character that those must have who are admitted to heaven. As soon as a man puts on Christ, an evidence of the change wrought in him is seen in spirit and word and act. A heavenly atmosphere surrounds his soul; for Christ is abiding within. {LHU 301.4}

However complete may have been our consecration at conversion, it will avail us nothing unless it be renewed daily, but a consecration that embraces the actual present is fresh, genuine, and acceptable to God. {OFC 125.5}

The fruit Jesus produced while abiding in the Father ascended in spotless purity. It needed no additives to make it acceptable.

Did a short search on the phrase "acceptable to God". Although she doesn't always say so, the fruit of faith is acceptable to our heavenly Father only after Jesus mixes in His love and light.

No, they are the "same". Ellen White says so in explicit terms. There is another reason why the fruit Jesus bore needed no additives. I believe it is because Jesus is God.

No, they are the "same". Ellen White says so in explicit terms. There is another reason why the fruit Jesus bore needed no additives. I believe it is because Jesus is God.