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JUSTIFICATION, JUSTIFY
Verb and noun originate in Christian Latin (the Vulgate); Lat. analogy affords some excuse for the Romanist reading of 'justify' as 'make just,' by which sanctification is included under justification. Neither the Heb. nor the Greek original allows of any other definition of 'justify' than 'count just'; it is a term of ethical relationship, not ethical quality, and signifies the footing on which one is set towards another, not the character imparted to one. The Heb. verb (abstract noun wanting) deviates from the above sense only in the late Heb. of Da 12:3 (rendered in English Version 'turn
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And LORD God said to the woman, What is this thou have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.
but he did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Thou shall make rooms in the ark, and shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
Keep thee far from a FALSE matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, for I will not justify a wicked man.
Only be strong and very courageous to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee. Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou may have good success wherever thou go.
For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that LORD commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people hastened and passed ove
On that day LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. read more. I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me. There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there], and backward, but I cannot perceive him, on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Jo Now therefore, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams. And go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you after your fol read more. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according as LORD commanded them, and LORD accepted Job.
LORD shall judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts. read more. My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause. For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. read more. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it. Thou have seen it, O LORD. Keep not silence. O LORD, be not far from me. Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my LORD. Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me.
And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, and thy justice as the noon-day.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and {may prevail (LXX/NT)} when thou {are criticized (LXX/NT)}. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O LORD. For thou, LORD, are most high above all the earth. Thou are exalted far above all gods. read more. O ye who love LORD, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his sanctified. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. Light is sown for the righteous man, and gladness for the upright in heart. Be glad in LORD, ye righteous, and give thanks to the memory of his holiness.
If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?
And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of LORD's hand double for all her sins.
[But] Israel shall be saved by LORD with an everlasting salvation. Ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded world without end.
Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else. By myself I have sworn, the word has gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue will {confess to God (LXX/NT)}. read more. Only in LORD, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength. Even to him men shall come, and all those who were incensed against him shall be put to shame. In LORD all the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.
He is near who justifies me. Who will content with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Behold, my servant shall deal wisely. He shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied. By the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied. By the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors. Yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercessi
For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth. For LORD has called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit. Even a wife of youth when she is cast off, says thy God. read more. For a small moment I have forsaken thee, but with great mercies I will gather thee. In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on thee, says LORD thy Redeemer. For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says LORD who has mercy on thee.
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
O LORD, correct me, but in measure, not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Neither has Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou have multiplied thine abominations more than they, and have justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou have done.
And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
Why shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? Will LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? read more. He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig. The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net. read more. Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge [is ready] for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together. The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge. The day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, has come. Now shall be their perplexity. Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom. For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.
Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot, and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. read more. Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the loving kindness to Abraham, which thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold the man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! And wisdom is justified from her children.
The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed on behalf of many for remission of sins.
And all the people having heard, and the tax collectors who were immersed the immersion of John, justified God.
For I say to you, that this that is written is still necessary to be completed in me, And he was counted with lawless men, for these things about me also have fulfillment.
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
And now what is it going to be? Having arisen, immerse and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.
For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.
But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God, who will render to each man according to his works, read more. to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality--eternal life--
May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.
And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction.
And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
Now to the man being employed, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to obligation.
who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised up for our justification.
who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised up for our justification.
who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised up for our justification.
Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.
For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.
But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, now having been made righteous by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath through him.
And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many.
But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many.
But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. And the gift is not as through one man who sinned, for indeed the judgment from one man was for condemnation, but the gift from many offenses is for righteousness. read more. For if, by the offense of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. So then, as through an offense of one man was for condemnation for all men, so also through a righteousness of one man was for justification of life for all men.
So then, as through an offense of one man was for condemnation for all men, so also through a righteousness of one man was for justification of life for all men.
So then, as through an offense of one man was for condemnation for all men, so also through a righteousness of one man was for justification of life for all men. For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous.
For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous. And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,
And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant, so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it? Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?
What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.
What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet. But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.
But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead. And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. read more. And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death. For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin. For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do. But if I do this that I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me. For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not. For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do. But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me. Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me. For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts. I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?
I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death. For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, read more. so that the justice of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who walk not according to flesh, but according to Spirit.
For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him? read more. Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous. Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us.
What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.
For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness. But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. read more. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men. For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent. But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful. And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are, so that no flesh may boast before God. But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.
He also is who put a seal on us, and who gave the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. read more. For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
And the law is not from faith, but the man who does them will live in them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.
For ye are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
so that he might redeem those under law, so that we might receive the sonship. And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And I solemnly declare again to every man who is circumcised, that he is obligated to do the whole law.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,
In whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your salvation, in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by heavenly agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.
And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by heavenly agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.
But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.
and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, he entered in once into the Holy things, having found eternal redemption.
Indeed therefore, a necessity was for the models of the things in the heavens themselves to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things with better sacrifices than these.
Now where there is remission of these, there is no more offering for sin.
What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him? And if a brother or sister may be unclothed, and may be destitute of daily food, read more. and some man of you would say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and fed, but ye would not give them the things necessary for the body, what is the benefit? So also faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself. But some man will say, Thou have faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith from thy works, and I will show thee from my works my faith. Thou believe that there is one God, thou do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? Was not Abraham our father made righteous from works, having offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? Thou see that faith was working with his works, and from the works, faith was fully perfected. And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God. Ye see therefore that from works a man is made righteous, and not from faith only. And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot made righteous from works, having received the agents, and having sent them out another way? For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without the works is dead.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood