Justification
Understanding God's declaration of righteousness through faith.
This study explores the biblical doctrine of justification, focusing on how believers are declared righteous in God's sight through faith in Jesus Christ, apart from works of the law.
All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Summary by Book
Romans
8Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.
Galatians
4knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!
But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
Titus
1Thematic Index
Justification by Faith
Justification Through Christ
Law and Justification
Grace and Justification
All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.