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.

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• Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
• Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Rom 3:19–28Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• 1 Pet 1:18–21knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
• Rom 9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
• 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Gal 3:10–14For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• Gal 3:22–24But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
• 1 Jn 2:1–2My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
• Rom 4:2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
• Heb 7:18–19For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Rom 4:5–6But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
• 1 Pet 1:8–9whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
• Rom 3:30since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
• Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall 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 Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
• 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
• Job 9:2–3“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
• Luke 10:25–29Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
• 1 Cor 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• Rom 5:8–9But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• Rev 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
• 2 Cor 5:19–21namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
• Rom 8:30–34Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• Gal 2:19–20For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Gal 5:4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
• Rom 4:13–15For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• Job 9:29I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
• Ps 130:3–4If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
• John 6:68–69Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
• Gal 4:5that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• Rev 7:14I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
• Acts 4:12There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
• Rom 4:24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

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