27 Bible Verses about Justification, Necessity Of

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth your hearts: And that which is highly esteemed among men, is an abomination before God.

And he spake this parable to certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others. Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed thus, God I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.read more.
I fast twice in the week: I give tythes of all that I possess. And the publican standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Righteous Father, tho' the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

For the righteousness of God is revealed therein from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Even the righteousness of God, by the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all that believe; for there is no difference:

And shall not God vindicate his own elect, who cry to him day and night, though he bear long with them?

And I saw the heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he that sitteth on him, called Faithful and True: and in righteousness he judgeth and maketh war.

But I say to you, That every idle word which men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

In the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Christ Jesus, according to my gospel.

There is one lawgiver that is able to save and to destroy: Who art thou that judgest another?

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to be a sacrifice for sin, he hath condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

We know, the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,

For all have sinned, and are fallen short of the glory of God,

If we say, we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Therefore no flesh shall be justified in his sight by the works of the law; for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But the righteousness of God without the law is now manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets,

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Even we (knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ) have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

For I say to you, That unless your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore no flesh shall be justified in his sight by the works of the law; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

I do not make void the grace of God; for if righteousness is by the law, then Christ died in vain.

This only would I learn of you, Did you receive the Spirit, by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so thoughtless? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be condemned.

Christ is become of no effect to you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Though I might have confidence: if any man think that he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews, touching the law, a Pharisee; Touching zeal, persecuting the church, touching the righteousness, which is by the law, blameless.read more.
But whatsoever things were gain to me, those I have accounted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I account all things to be loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do account them but dung,