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 mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• Ps 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
• Rom 3:19–28Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• 1 Pet 1:18–21Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• Acts 13:38–39Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
• Rom 9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Gal 3:10–14For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
• Gal 3:22–24But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
• 1 Jn 2:1–2My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• Rom 4:2For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
• Heb 7:18–19For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
• Rom 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• Rom 4:5–6But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
• 1 Pet 1:8–9Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• Rom 3:30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
• Rom 1:17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
• Job 9:2–3I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
• Luke 10:25–29And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
• 1 Cor 6:11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• Rom 5:8–9But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• Rev 7:9After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
• 2 Cor 5:19–21To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
• Rom 8:30–34Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• Gal 2:19–20For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Gal 5:4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
• Rom 4:13–15For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• Job 9:29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
• Ps 130:3–4If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
• John 6:68–69Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
• Gal 4:5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
• 1 Pet 1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Rev 7:14And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Acts 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
• Rom 4:24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

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