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JUSTIFICATION, JUSTIFY
Verb and noun originate in Christian Latin (the Vulgate); Lat. analogy affords some excuse for the Romanist reading of 'justify' as 'make just,' by which sanctification is included under justification. Neither the Heb. nor the Greek original allows of any other definition of 'justify' than 'count just'; it is a term of ethical relationship, not ethical quality, and signifies the footing on which one is set towards another, not the character imparted to one. The Heb. verb (abstract noun wanting) deviates from the above sense only in the late Heb. of Da 12:3 (rendered in English Version 'turn
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And Jehovah God will say to the woman, What is this thou didst? And the woman will say, The serpent deceived me and I shall eat.
And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall.
Make to thee a box of pitch wood; nests shalt thou make in the ark, and cover it from within and from without with pitch.
From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one.
Only be strong and be greatly active, to watch to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee: thou shalt not turn aside from it to the right and to the left, so that thou shalt be wise in all things where thou shalt go.
And the priests lifting up the ark standing in the midst of Jordan, till all was finished which Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all which Moses commanded Joshua: and the people will haste and will pass through.
In that day Jehovah made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they will fear him as they feared Moses all the days of his life.
Who will give, I knew to find him: I will come even to his place. I will arrange judgment before him, and I will fill the mouth with proofs. read more. I shall know the words he will answer me, and I shall understand what he will say to me. Will he contend with me in great power? No; but he will put in me. There the upright one disputed with him; and I shall be delivered forever from my judge. Behold, I shall go before, and he is not; and behind, I shall not understand for him. The left hand in his working, and I shall not behold: he will cover himself on the right hand, and I shall not see. For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold. My foot laid hold upon his going, I watched his way and not softly.
And how shall man be justified with God? and how shall he born of woman be clean?
And it will be after Jehovah spake these words to Job, and Jehovah will say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger was kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye spake not the right before me as my servant Job. And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job. read more. And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite, will go, and they will do according as God Jehovah spake: and Jehovah will accept the face of Job.
Jehovah shall judge peoples: judge me, O Jehovah, according to my justice, and according to mine integrity upon me. Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins. read more. My shield upon God, saving the upright of heart
Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye. For they will not speak peace: and against the quiet of the land they will purpose words of deceits. read more. They will widen their mouth upon me: they said, Aha! aha our eye saw it. Thou sawest, O Jehovah: thou wilt not be silent: O Jehovah, thou wilt not remove far off from me. Rouse up and awake to judgment, my God and my Lord, for my contention. Judge me according to thy justice, O Jehovah my God, and they shall not rejoice over me.
And he brought forth as the light thy justice, and thy judgment as the noon.
Judge me, O God, and contend my contention from a nation not godly: from the man of deceit and iniquity thou wilt deliver me.
Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging. Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Zion heard and she will be glad, and the daughters of Judah shall rejoice for sake of thy judgments, O Jehovah. For thou, Jehovah, art most high over all the earth: thou wert exalted greatly above all gods. read more. Hate evil, ye loving Jehovah: he watched the souls of his godly ones; he will deliver them from the hand of the unjust Light was sown for the just one, and gladness for the upright of heart Be glad ye just, in Jehovah, and praise him at the remembrance of his holiness.
If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?
And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee.
Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her that her war was filled up, her iniquity was paid off: that she received from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.
Israel was saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed and ye shall not be disgraced even to forever, forever.
Look to me all ye ends of the earth and be saved, for I am God, and none else. By myself I sware the word, justice went forth out of my mouth, and shall not turn back, That to me every knee shall bend, every tongue shall swear. read more. Surely saying, In Jehovah to me justice and strength: even to him shall he come; and all being angry against him shall be ashamed. In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
He drawing near justifying me: who shall contend with me? we will stand together: who the lord of my judgment? he shall draw near to me.
Behold, my servant shall be wise, he shall be exalted, and lifted up, and be high exceedingly.
And be shall see of the labor of his soul, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge my just servant shall justify for many; and he shall bear their iniquities..
And be shall see of the labor of his soul, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge my just servant shall justify for many; and he shall bear their iniquities.. For this I will divide to him with many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; for which his soul was poured out to death, and he was numbered with transgressors; and he lifted up the sin of many, and he will supplicate for transgressors.
For thy Lord making thee; Jehovah of armies his name; and he redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel; the God of the earth shall he be called. As a wife forsaken and grieved of spirit Jehovah called thee, and a wife of youth; for thou shalt be rejected, said thy God. read more. In a little moment I forsook thee; and with great mercies I will gather thee. In the outpouring of anger I hid a moment my face from thee; and in eternal mercy I compassionated thee, said Jehovah redeeming thee. For this the water of Noah to me: as I sware to the water of Noah from again passing over the earth; thus I sware from being angry against thee and from rebuking upon thee. For the mountains shall remove and the hills shall waver; and my mercy shall not remove from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not waver, said Jehovah compassionating thee.
For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them.
And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.
And Jehovah will say to me, Israel turning away justified her soul above faithless Judah.
Correct me, O Jehovah, but in judgment, not in thy wrath, lest thou shalt make me small.
The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him?
And Shomeron sinned not according to half thy sins: and thou wilt multiply thine abominations above them, and thou wilt justify thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou didst.
And those understanding shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those justifying many, as the stars forever and ever.
With what shall I come before Jehovah? I will bow to the high God; shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves, the sons of a year? Will Jehovah delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of torrents of oil? shall I give my first-born my transgression? the fruit of my belly, the sin of my soul? read more. He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?
Wo to me! for I was as the gatherings of the fruit harvest, as the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fig. The merciful one perished from the earth, and none upright among men: they all will lie in wait for bloods; they will hunt each his brother with a net. read more. For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it Their good as the thorn, the upright more than the thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchings and thy reviewings came; now shall be their perplexity. Ye shall not trust in a companion, ye shall not confide in a friend: watch the doors of thy mouth from her lying in thy bosom. For the son despising the father, the daughter rising up against her mother, the bride against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies the men of his house.
Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy. He will turn back, he will compassionate us: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. read more. Thou wilt give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which thou didst swear to our fathers from the days of old.
Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.
The Ninevite men shall rise up in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas here.
Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear.
As the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.
For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.
And all the people having heard, and the publicans, justified God, having been immersed with the immersion of John.
For I say to you, that this written must yet be finished in me, that, Also was he reckoned with the lawless: for also the things concerning me have an end.
Testifying to both Jews, and Greeks, repentance towards God, and the faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
And now what art thou about to do having risen, be immersed and wash away thy sins, having called upon the name of the Lord.
To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.
For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith.
And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God; Who will give back to each according to his works: read more. To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged.
And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction:
And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction: For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;
For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;
For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God; Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:
Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:
And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt.
Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.
Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.
Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.
Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:
Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:
For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.
For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.
And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us. Much more then, justified now in his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.
And not only, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.
But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.
But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.
But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many. And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification. read more. For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life.
Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life.
Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just.
For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just. And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded:
And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded: That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it? Or know ye not, that as many of us as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we were immersed into his death?
Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death.
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.
What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire. And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead.
And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead. And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died. read more. And the command was found to me which for life, this for death. For sin having taken occasion by the command, deceived me completely, and by it killed me. Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good. Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command. For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin. For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do. And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good. And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me. For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not. For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do. And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me. I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me. For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within: And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members. I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?
I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and death. For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: read more. That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father.
What then shall we say to these? if God with us, who against us? Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all? read more. Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying. Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us.
What then shall we say? That the nations, not following justice, overtook justice, and the justice of faith.
For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.
And we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews truly a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; And to these the called, to both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and wisdom of God. read more. For the foolish thing of God is wiser than men; and the weak thing of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born: But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed: That no flesh might boast before him. And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness: That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.
Who also having sealed us, and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.
For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation. For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. read more. For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.
For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man having done them shall live in them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:
For we are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And again to any man circumcised, I testify, that he is debtor to do the whole law.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision; but faith being energetic through love.
In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;
In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise,
Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father;
And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.
And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.
But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all.
Neither by the blood of he-goats and calves, and by his own blood he went in once for all to the holies, having found eternal deliverance.
Therefore truly a necessity for the patterns of things in the heavens to be purified with these; and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
And where remission of these, no more bringing in for sin.
And what profit, my brethren, if any say he has faith, and should not have works? can faith save him? And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food, read more. And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit? So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself. But certain will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith from my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: and the evil spirits believe, and shudder. And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar Thou seest that faith cooperated with his works, and from works was faith perfected. And the writing was completed, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice: and he was called the Friend of God. Therefore ye see that man is justified from works, and not from faith alone. And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the chief of the kings of the earth. To him having loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood,