Romans 4:5

God justifies the ungodly who simply trust him, crediting their faith as righteousness. Salvation is for those who stop working and start believing.

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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;
• Rom 3:22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
• Titus 3:3–7For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 10:9–10that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Gal 3:8–14The 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.”
• Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
• Gal 2:16–17yet 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.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• Rom 1:17–18For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
• John 6:29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
• 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.
• Rom 4:3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
• 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,
• Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
• Rom 5:6–8For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
• Rom 3:26–30to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
• Rom 8:30–34Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• 1 Tim 1:13–15although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Hab 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Josh 24:2Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh says, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
• Zech 3:3–4Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

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