Thematic Bible: Justification before God
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » By imputation of Christ's righteousness
I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah. I will exult in my God for he has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.
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It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
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The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. The result of righteousness was justification (acquittal), which brings life for all men.
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In His days Judah will be saved. Israel will dwell securely. This is his name by which he will be called, Jehovah Is Our Righteousness.
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God makes people righteous through their active faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all.
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Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.
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If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?
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Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
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Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God? If one wished to argue with God, he could not answer or respond to him once in a thousand times.
But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law. Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.
Justification before God » Under the gospel » Is not of faith and works united
You who seek to be righteous by Law are separated from Christ. You have fallen away from grace.
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Some men came down from Judea to teach the brothers. They said: You cannot be saved unless you become circumcised according to the custom of Moses. Paul and Barnabas had an intense (harsh) dispute and debate with them. They concluded that Paul, Barnabas, and others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders to settle this question. The congregation sent them on their way. They passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations. They brought great joy to all the brothers. read more.
Then they went to Jerusalem where the apostles and elders and congregation greeted them. They declared all the things that God had done for them. The believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stated: It is needed to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses. The apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. After much discussion Peter got up and said: Men and brothers you know that God made a choice among us, that I would preach the good news to the nations that they may hear and believe. God knows their hearts and showed that he accepted them by giving them Holy Spirit just as he did to us. He made no distinction between them and us and purified their hearts by faith. Why do you test God by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, one that our fathers were not able to bear? We believe we are saved through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, as they also are. The crowd kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul. They declared the miracles and wonders God performed through them among the people of the nations. When they finished talking James said: Brothers listen to me: Simeon declared how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name. The words of the prophets agree to this for it is written: I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins. I will restore it. (Amos 9:11,12) That the rest of mankind might seek after Jehovah, and all the nations, upon whom my name is called, Jehovah said, who is doing these things. (Amos 9:12) Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Therefore it is my decision not to trouble those of the nations who have turned to God. We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood. Moses has been preached in the synagogues from old times until now every Sabbath day. The apostles and elders along with the whole congregation desired to send chosen men to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers. They wrote letters as follows: The apostles, elders and brothers send greeting to the brothers who are of the nations in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Since we have heard, that certain ones who went out from us have troubled you with speeches, subverting you, saying: You must be circumcised, and keep the law. We gave no such commandment! It seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul. These men have endangered their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things in person. For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things. You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell (best wishes).
Then they went to Jerusalem where the apostles and elders and congregation greeted them. They declared all the things that God had done for them. The believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stated: It is needed to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses. The apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. After much discussion Peter got up and said: Men and brothers you know that God made a choice among us, that I would preach the good news to the nations that they may hear and believe. God knows their hearts and showed that he accepted them by giving them Holy Spirit just as he did to us. He made no distinction between them and us and purified their hearts by faith. Why do you test God by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, one that our fathers were not able to bear? We believe we are saved through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, as they also are. The crowd kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul. They declared the miracles and wonders God performed through them among the people of the nations. When they finished talking James said: Brothers listen to me: Simeon declared how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name. The words of the prophets agree to this for it is written: I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins. I will restore it. (Amos 9:11,12) That the rest of mankind might seek after Jehovah, and all the nations, upon whom my name is called, Jehovah said, who is doing these things. (Amos 9:12) Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Therefore it is my decision not to trouble those of the nations who have turned to God. We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood. Moses has been preached in the synagogues from old times until now every Sabbath day. The apostles and elders along with the whole congregation desired to send chosen men to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers. They wrote letters as follows: The apostles, elders and brothers send greeting to the brothers who are of the nations in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Since we have heard, that certain ones who went out from us have troubled you with speeches, subverting you, saying: You must be circumcised, and keep the law. We gave no such commandment! It seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul. These men have endangered their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things in person. For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things. You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell (best wishes).
We reason therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
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If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.
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I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news. Therefore I said to Cephas, in front of them all: If you, being a Jew, live as the nations do and not as the Jews, why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews? We are Jews by birth, and not sinners from the nations. Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one. read more.
We sought to be righteous in Christ. And we were found to be sinners. Is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid. If I build up again the things that I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor. I, through the law, died to the law that I might live to (for) God. I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me. I do not reject the grace (totally undeserved gift) of God: for if righteousness is [gained] through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
We sought to be righteous in Christ. And we were found to be sinners. Is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid. If I build up again the things that I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor. I, through the law, died to the law that I might live to (for) God. I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me. I do not reject the grace (totally undeserved gift) of God: for if righteousness is [gained] through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
Justification before God » By faith » Excludes boasting
Let it be as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in Jehovah! (Jeremiah 9:24)
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No human being should boast before God.
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Where is the boasting? It is excluded. Is it by law? Is it by works? No, it is by a principle of faith.
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If Abraham was declared righteous by works, he could boast, but not to God.
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » Is by faith alone
We are justified (acquitted) (made righteous) by faith. And we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Truly, Truly I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has everlasting life. He will not receive judgment for he has passed out of death into life.
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If God is one he will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
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Through him all who believe are justified from all things. You could not be justified through the Law of Moses.
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Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » Is not of works
God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.
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Through him all who believe are justified from all things. You could not be justified through the Law of Moses.
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Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.
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The fact that the Law justifies no man before God is evident. The righteous will live by faith.
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Justification before God » Under the law » Requires perfect obedience
The hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be righteous.
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Obey them and you will live. I am Jehovah.
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Moses writes down the righteousness that is of the law. The man who has practiced those things shall live by them.
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Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » Frees from condemnation
Who will bring any charge against the ones God has chosen? It is God who justifies (makes righteous). Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
The one who pronounces me innocent is near. Who will bring a case against me? Let us confront each other! Who accuses me? Let him draw near to me!
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Weapons forged against you will not prevail! You will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah and this is their vindication from me, declares Jehovah.
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » Is of grace
being justified freely by his grace (as a gift) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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For this reason it is by faith that it may be according to grace (divine influence) (loving-kindness). The promise may be sure to all descendants! This is not only to that which is of the law, but to that also which is by the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ. The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. The result of righteousness was justification (acquittal), which brings life for all men. Through the disobedience of one man many have been made sinners. Yet through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous. read more.
The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more. And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more. And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Justification before God » By faith » Does not make void the law
If God is one he will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we nullify the law through faith? No we do not! In fact, we establish (continue) (stand by) (uphold) the law.
To those without Law I became like those without Law that I might gain them. I am not without law to God, but under the law to (toward) (of) Christ.
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » By the resurrection of Christ
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification (acquittal).
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And if Christ is not resurrected, your faith is worth nothing, and you are still in your sins.
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Justification before God » Promised in Christ
All the descendants of Israel will be declared righteous, and they will praise Jehovah.'
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After his suffering he will see the light and be satisfied. By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many. He will bear their iniquities.
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Justification before God » By faith » Revealed under the old dispensation
Behold, he is proud. He is not righteous. The righteous will live by faith.
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It reveals the righteousness of God from faith-to-faith for it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.
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Justification before God » Is the act of God
Who will bring any charge against the ones God has chosen? It is God who justifies (makes righteous).
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The one who pronounces me innocent is near. Who will bring a case against me? Let us confront each other! Who accuses me? Let him draw near to me!
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » In the name of Christ
That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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Justification before God » Exemplified » Paul
I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. I suffered the loss of all things. Yet I count them as refuse (garbage) (dung) that I may gain Christ. I want to be united with him. I no longer want a righteousness of my own that is gained by obeying the law. The righteousness from God is by faith in Christ.
Justification before God » Typified
He spoke to those who stood before him: Take the filthy garments from him. Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with rich apparel. I said: Let them set a clean headdress upon his head. So they set a clean headdress upon his head, and clothed him with garments. The angel of Jehovah was standing nearby.
Justification before God » Under the gospel » Blessedness of
([Psalm of David]) Blessed is the person whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned. Blessed is the person whom Jehovah no longer accuses of sin and who has no deceitful thoughts.
Justification before God » Exemplified » Abraham
He believed in Jehovah. Jehovah considered Abram's faith as his righteousness.
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » Ensures glorification
He ordained in advance the ones he called. He declared righteous the ones he called. He also glorified those he declared righteous.
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Justification before God » The wicked shall not attain to
Do not make false accusations. Do not put an innocent person to death. I will condemn anyone who does this evil thing.
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » By the blood of Christ
Much more, now justified by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God through him.
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Justification before God » Illustrated
I tell you the tax collector and not the Pharisee was right with God when he went home. He who exalts himself will be humbled! He who humbles himself will be exalted!
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Justification before God » Under the gospel » Entitles to an inheritance
Being justified by his grace (loving kindness), we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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