Justified, made just in legal terms. If you break a law, frequently you can be justified in our legal system with the payment of a fine. Jesus paid our debt making us just in God’s eye.
I think you are speaking more to sanctification. Being set apart, being made more Christ like.
Precisely. Made just, not merely declared just.
I think you are speaking more to sanctification.
They are ontologically one and the same thing. Both of them are the divine life of grace entering into our souls.
Luther wrongly decided they were different, so he could teach his false gospel of "salvation by faith alone".