Galatians 2:16

A person is justified not by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ; no one is justified by law-keeping. This is the central truth of the letter.

Cross-references · 40

• Phil 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
• Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Rom 3:19–28Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
• 1 Pet 1:18–21For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
• Acts 13:38–39Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
• Rom 9:30What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
• 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
• Gal 3:10–14All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
• Gal 3:22–24But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.
• 1 Jn 2:1–2My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
• Rom 4:2If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.
• Heb 7:18–19So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
• Rom 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
• Rom 4:5–6However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
• 1 Pet 1:8–9Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
• Rom 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• Rom 1:17For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
• 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
• Job 9:2–3“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
• Luke 10:25–29One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
• 1 Cor 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• Rom 5:8–9But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• Rev 7:9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
• 2 Cor 5:19–21that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
• Rom 8:30–34And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
• Gal 2:19–20For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Gal 5:4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
• Rom 4:13–15For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
• Job 9:29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
• Ps 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
• John 6:68–69Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
• Gal 4:5to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• Rev 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Acts 4:12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
• Rom 4:24but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

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