JUSTIFICATION

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• Genesis 15:6

  He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

• Psalms 32:2

  Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

• Psalms 71:16

  I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

• Psalms 89:16

  In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

• Isaiah 42:21

  It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

• Isaiah 45:24

  They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.

• Isaiah 45:25

  All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

• Isaiah 46:12

  Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

• Isaiah 46:13

  I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

• Isaiah 50:8

  He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

• Isaiah 51:5

  My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.

• Isaiah 51:6

  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

• Isaiah 53:11

  After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

• Isaiah 54:17

  No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

• Isaiah 56:1

  Yahweh says, “Maintain justice, and do what is right; for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Jeremiah 23:6

  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. This is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

• Habakkuk 2:4

  Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

• Zechariah 3:4

  He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off of him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”

• 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.

• Acts 13:39

  and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

• Romans 1:16

  For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

• Romans 1:17

  For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

• Romans 2:13

  For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

• Romans 3:21

  But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

• Romans 3:22

  even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

• Romans 3:24

  being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

• Romans 3:25

  whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

• Romans 3:26

  to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

• Romans 3:28

  We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

• Romans 3:30

  since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

• Romans 4:3

  For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

• Romans 4:4

  Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

• Romans 4:5

  But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

• Romans 4:6

  Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

• Romans 4:7

  “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

• Romans 4:8

  Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”

• Romans 4:9

  Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

• Romans 4:10

  How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

• Romans 4:11

  He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

• Romans 4:12

  He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

• Romans 4:13

  For 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.

• Romans 4:14

  For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

• Romans 4:15

  For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

• Romans 4:16

  For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

• Romans 4:17

  As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

• Romans 4:18

  Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”

• Romans 4:19

  Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

• Romans 4:20

  Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

• Romans 4:21

  and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

• Romans 4:22

  Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”

• Romans 4:23

  Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

• Romans 4:24

  but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

• Romans 4:25

  who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

• Romans 5:1

  Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

• Romans 5:9

  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

• Romans 5:11

  Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

• Romans 5:12

  Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

• Romans 5:13

  For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

• Romans 5:14

  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

• Romans 5:15

  But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

• Romans 5:16

  The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

• Romans 5:17

  For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

• Romans 5:18

  So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

• Romans 5:19

  For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

• Romans 5:20

  The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

• Romans 5:21

  that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

• Romans 6:22

  But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

• Romans 7:1

  Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

• Romans 7:2

  For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

• Romans 7:3

  So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

• Romans 7:4

  Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

• Romans 7:5

  For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

• Romans 7:6

  But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

• Romans 7:7

  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

• Romans 7:8

  But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

• Romans 7:9

  I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

• Romans 7:10

  The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

• Romans 7:11

  for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

• Romans 7:12

  Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

• Romans 7:13

  Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

• Romans 7:14

  For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

• Romans 7:15

  For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

• Romans 7:16

  But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

• Romans 7:17

  So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

• Romans 7:18

  For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

• Romans 7:19

  For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

• Romans 7:20

  But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

• Romans 7:21

  I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

• Romans 7:22

  For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

• Romans 7:23

  but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

• Romans 7:24

  What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

• Romans 7:25

  I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

• Romans 8:1

  There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

• Romans 8:30

  Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

• Romans 8:31

  What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

• Romans 8:33

  Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

• Romans 8:34

  Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

• Romans 9:30

  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

• Romans 9:31

  but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

• Romans 9:32

  Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

• Romans 10:1

  Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

• Romans 10:2

  For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

• Romans 10:3

  For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

• Romans 10:4

  For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

• Romans 10:5

  For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

• Romans 10:6

  But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down);

• Romans 10:7

  or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”

• Romans 10:8

  But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

• Romans 10:9

  that 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.

• Romans 10:10

  For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

• Romans 10:11

  For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

• Romans 10:12

  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

• Romans 10:13

  For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

• Romans 10:14

  How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

• Romans 10:15

  And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

• Romans 10:16

  But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

• Romans 10:17

  So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

• Romans 10:18

  But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

• Romans 10:19

  But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”

• Romans 10:20

  Isaiah is very bold, and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

• Romans 10:21

  But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

• 1 Corinthians 1:30

  Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

• 1 Corinthians 6:11

  Such 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.

• 2 Corinthians 5:19

  namely, 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.

• 2 Corinthians 5:21

  For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

• Galatians 2:14

  But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

• Galatians 2:15

  “We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

• Galatians 2:16

  yet 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.

• Galatians 2:17

  But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

• Galatians 2:18

  For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

• Galatians 2:19

  For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

• Galatians 2:20

  I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

• Galatians 2:21

  I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

• Galatians 3:6

  Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

• Galatians 3:8

  The 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.”

• Galatians 3:9

  So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

• Galatians 3:11

  Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

• Galatians 3:21

  Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

• Galatians 3:22

  But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

• Galatians 3:24

  So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

• Galatians 4:21

  Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

• Galatians 4:22

  For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

• Galatians 4:23

  However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

• Galatians 4:24

  These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

• Galatians 4:25

  For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

• Galatians 4:26

  But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

• Galatians 4:27

  For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”

• Galatians 4:28

  Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

• Galatians 4:29

  But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

• Galatians 4:30

  However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

• Galatians 4:31

  So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

• Galatians 5:4

  You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

• Galatians 5:5

  For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

• Galatians 5:6

  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

• Ephesians 6:14

  Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

• Philippians 3:8

  Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

• Philippians 3:9

  and 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;

• Colossians 2:13

  You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

• Colossians 2:14

  wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

• Titus 3:7

  that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

• Hebrews 11:4

  By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

• Hebrews 11:7

  By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

• James 2:20

  But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

• James 2:21

  Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

• James 2:22

  You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

• James 2:23

  and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

• James 2:26

  For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.