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.

Cross-references · 21

• 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.
• Rom 3:22And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
• Titus 3:3–7For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Rom 10:9–10that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Gal 3:8–14The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
• Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Gal 2:16–17know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
• Rom 1:17–18For 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.”
• John 6:29Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”
• John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• Rom 4:3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
• 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.
• Acts 13:38–39Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
• Rom 5:6–8For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
• Rom 3:26–30He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
• Rom 8:30–34And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
• 1 Tim 1:13–15I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Hab 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
• Josh 24:2And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
• Zech 3:3–4Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.

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