15 Bible Verses about Justification By Faith

for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.

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

There it is that divine justification is revealed to be wholly by faith: as it is written, " the just shall live by faith."

what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded. what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith.

for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God.

that no man might glory before God;

since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith. do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.

to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness.

yet knowing 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 him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

so that the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

for all having sinned, all have forfeited eternal glory: being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ:

therefore the inheritance is of faith, that it might be meerly of favour, to the end the promise might be assured to all his posterity, not to that part only who have the law, but to that also who have the faith of Abraham, the father of us all, as it is written,

the type of him that was to come: but yet the damage of the fall does not exactly correspond to the advantages of the divine favour: for tho' through the fall of one, mankind became mortal, yet this is greatly over-ballanced by the favour and bounty of God, in the benevolence of one man, Jesus Christ, to all mankind. neither is the gift, as was the fall by one sin: for the sentence of condemnation, was for one offence; but the divine favour extends to justification from a multitude of sins. for tho' death reigned thro' the single offence of one, they who receive the most valuable favour, even the gift of righteousness, shall much more easily reign by the life of one, even Jesus Christ.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose.