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Bible Verses About Justification by Faith

This collection includes 50 passages about Justification by Faith. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

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But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

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Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

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Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

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To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

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Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

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And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

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Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

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Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

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For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

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For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

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And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

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Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

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For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

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But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

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And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; 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,

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What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

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Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

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And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

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Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

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I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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