27 Bible Verses about Justification, Necessity Of

Who can bring any accusation against those whom God has chosen? God pronounces them upright;

But he, wishing to justify his question, said, "And who is my neighbor?"

And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.

To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration: "Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.read more.
I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.' But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!' I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

Then will not God provide protection for his chosen people, who cry out to him day and night?

Then I saw heaven thrown open and there appeared a white horse. His rider was called Faithful and True, and he judges and wages war in uprightness.

But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment.

on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

There is only one lawgiver and judge??e who has the power to save and to destroy; who are you, to judge your neighbor?

So the Law itself is holy, and each command is holy, just, and good.

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature, so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

I agree that the Law is excellent??rovided it is legitimately used,

For all men sin and come short of the glory of God,

If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin. But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

We who are Jews by birth, and not sinful heathen, but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard? Are you so senseless? Did you begin with the Spirit only to end now with the flesh?

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for his own conduct condemned him.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

though I at least am entitled to rely on them. If anyone thinks he can rely on his physical advantages, still more can I! I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee; as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.read more.
But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss. Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ