Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Mt 12:37 – for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
Rom 1:32 – Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Jesus
Lk 18:14 – I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Men
Oneself
Job
Job 6:29 – Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job 9:20 – Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job 10:15 – If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
Job 12:4 – I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Job 13:18 – Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Job 27:5 – Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6 – I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Job 32:1 – So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:2 – Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 34:5 – For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Job 35:2 – "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Job 35:7 – If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Israelites
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isa 43:26 – Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Isa 57:12 – I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.
Jer 3:11 – And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Jer 50:7 – All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'
The lawyer
Lk 10:29 – But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Pharisees
Lk 16:15 – And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Judges
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Isa 5:23 – who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
Jerusalem
Ezek 16:51 – Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
Ezek 16:52 – Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
The children of wisdom
Mt 11:19 – The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Lk 7:35 – Yet wisdom is justified by all her children."
Those who turn many to righteousness
Dan 12:3 – And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Other individuals
Eliphaz
Job 4:17 – 'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 15:14 – What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Job 22:3 – Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Elihu
Job 33:12 – "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
Job 33:32 – If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Job 35:7 – If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Judah
Gen 38:26 – Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.
Gen 44:16 – And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."
Absalom
2 Sam 15:4 – Then Absalom would say, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
Zophar
Job 11:2 – "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
Bildad
Job 25:4 – How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Those who are justified
Justified by God
Individuals
Abram/Abraham
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Rom 4:2 – For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:22 – That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Gal 3:6 – just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
Noah
Gen 7:1 – Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Job
Job 33:26 – then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
David
Ps 4:1 – Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Phinehas
Ps 106:31 – And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.
Isaiah
Isa 50:8 – He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Christ
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Zechariah and Elizabeth
Lk 1:6 – And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Rahab
Jas 2:25 – And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
Groups
Descendents of Israel
Isa 45:25 – In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory."。
Gentiles
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Qualifications
Those who trust in Jesus/God
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Those who act by faith
Rom 2:13 – For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Sinners
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 5:19 – For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
Those who are chosen
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
The afflicted and the destitute
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Those who are humble
Lk 18:14 – I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Sanctuary
Dan 8:14 – And he said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state."
Justified by the Holy Spirit
Christ
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Justified by men
God
Ezra 9:15 – O LORD the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
Neh 9:33 – Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.
Job 34:17 – Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Ps 119:137 – Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
Ps 129:4 – The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
Ps 145:17 – The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.
Isa 50:8 – He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Jer 12:1 – Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Lam 1:18 – "The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity.
Dan 9:14 – Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Zech 9:9 – Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Lk 7:29 – (When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Acts 3:14 – But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 22:14 – And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
1 Jn 2:1 – My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 Jn 2:29 – If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Men
Oneself
Job
Job 6:29 – Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job 9:20 – Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job 10:15 – If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
Job 12:4 – I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Job 13:18 – Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Job 27:5 – Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6 – I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Job 32:1 – So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:2 – Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 34:5 – For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Job 35:2 – "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Job 35:7 – If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Isralites
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isa 43:26 – Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Isa 57:12 – I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.
Jer 3:11 – And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Jer 50:7 – All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'
Lawyer
Lk 10:29 – But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Pharisees
Lk 16:15 – And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
The righteous
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
The wicked
Prov 17:15 – He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
Other individuals
Tamar
Gen 38:26 – Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.
Wisdom
Mt 11:19 – The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Lk 7:35 – Yet wisdom is justified by all her children."
State of men before justification by God (See <topic id=”489” startswith=”Reasons for condemnation” nth=”1”>“Condemnation” in the New Testament > Reasons for condemnation</topic>）
Impossible to be righteous
Job 4:17 – 'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 9:2 – "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 11:2 – "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
Job 25:4 – How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Job 33:32 – If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
As the slaves of sin
Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Rom 6:20 – When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Living in hypocrisy
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Violent
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Persecuting the righteous
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Unable to lead to righteousness
Rom 9:31 – but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
Unsubmissive to God’s righteousness
Rom 10:3 – For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
Reasons men are justified by God
By faith
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:28 – For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:22 – That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 5:1 – Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 10:10 – For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Heb 11:4 – By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
By the redemption of Christ
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 4:25 – who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Rom 5:9 – Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Rom 5:17 – If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Rom 5:19 – For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Not by observing the law
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 – But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it–
Rom 3:28 – For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 9:31 – but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal 3:21 – Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Gal 5:4 – You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
Tit 3:5 – he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
By the deeds done through faith
Lk 1:6 – And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Rom 2:13 – For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Rom 2:26 – So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 10:5 – For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
Heb 11:4 – By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Jas 2:21 – Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
Jas 2:24 – You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Jas 2:25 – And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
By God’s grace
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 4:6 – just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Rom 5:16 – And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Tit 3:5 – he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
By God’s election
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
How to be justified by God
Have faith in Jesus
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Receive baptism for the remission of sins
In the name of the Lord Jesus
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Washed by the Spirit of God
Isa 4:3 – And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem,
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
By the blood of Jesus
Rom 5:9 – Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
In Christ
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Face judgment on the last day
Mt 12:37 – for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
Results of justification by God
Receive life
Gen 7:1 – Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Hab 2:4 – "Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Rom 1:17 – For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Heb 10:38 – but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Receive righteousness
Ps 24:5 – He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
1 Cor 1:30 – He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Be free from sin
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 6:7 – For one who has died has been set free from sin.
Rom 6:18 – and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Have peace with God
Rom 5:1 – Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:9 – Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
Receive glory
Isa 45:25 – In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory."
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Be sanctified
Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Be with God
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Be heir of the world
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.。
Be free from any charge
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Receive authority and power
2 Cor 6:7 – by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
Become heirs
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Obtain promises
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Obtain faith
2 Pet 1:1 – Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
Actions after being justified by God
Be renewed by the Holy Spirit
Rom 6:16 – Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Rom 8:4 – in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Gal 5:5 – For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Tit 3:5 – he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Sin no more
2 Cor 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Gal 2:17 – But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
1 Jn 2:1 – My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 Jn 3:7 – Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
Present members to God
Rom 6:13 – Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Minister to God
2 Cor 3:9 – For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
2 Cor 6:7 – by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
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