Romans 3:28

Paul states plainly that a person is justified by faith, not by works of the law. This is the core of the doctrine of justification.

Cross-references · 18

• Titus 3:7that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
• Gal 3:8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
• Gal 3:24So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Rom 3:26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
• 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 4:5But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
• Jas 2:24You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.
• 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;
• John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• Rom 3:20–22Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Eph 2:9not of works, that no one would boast.
• Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
• 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.
• Gal 3:11–14Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
• Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• John 3:14–18As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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