27 Bible Verses about Justification, Necessity Of

Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits,

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else. "Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer. The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.read more.
Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.' But the taxgatherer stood far away and would not lift even his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'O God, have mercy on me for my sins!' I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn.

And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?

Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.

I tell you, men will have to account on the day of judgment for every light word they utter;

on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.

follow 2:13] Do not defame one another, brothers; he who defames or judges his brother defames and judges the Law; and if you judge the Law, you pass sentence on it instead of obeying it.

So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good.

For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit.

I am quite aware that 'the Law is admirable' ??provided that one makes a lawful use of it;

All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,

If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin. But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message? Are you such fools? 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. The man stood self-condemned.

You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him. I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law, in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.read more.
But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ