17 Bible Verses about Justification By Faith

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

“Behold, as for the proud one,
His soul is not right within him;
But the righteous will live by his faith.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

so that no man may boast before God.

since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one. Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.

to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.

Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”