'Justified' in the Bible

But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

Then God asked Jonah, "Is your anger about the vine plant justified?" And he answered, "Absolutely! I'm so angry I could die!"

I tell you, this man, rather than the other one, went down to his home justified, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."

and that everyone who believes in him is justified and freed from everything that kept you from being justified by the Law of Moses.

For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified.

By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus,

For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the actions prescribed by the Law.

For if Abraham was justified by actions, he would have had something to boast about though not before God.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!

And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.

For one believes with his heart and is justified, and declares with his mouth and is saved.

That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah and by the Spirit of our God.

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah is serving the interests of sin? Of course not!

Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because "The righteous will live by faith."

And so the Law was our guardian until the Messiah came, so that we might be justified by faith.

Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

Our ancestor Abraham was justified by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar, wasn't he?

You observe that a person is justified through actions and not through faith alone.

Likewise, Rahab the prostitute was justified through actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away on a different road, wasn't she?