17 Bible Verses about Justification By Faith

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, "The righteous by faith will live."

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about -- but not before God.

so that no one can boast in his presence.

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God's law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants -- not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification. For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

I do not set aside God's grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!