26 Bible Verses about Justification, Necessity Of

Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies;

But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

And he said to them, You are they that justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts; for that which is high among men is an abomination before God.

And he also spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee, standing by himself, offered this prayer; God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican;read more.
I fast twice a week; I tithe all I acquire. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be propitious to me a sinner. I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than that; for every one that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

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

and, righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou didst send me.

For God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as it is written; The righteous shall live by faith.

but God's righteousness is through the faith of Jesus Christ, in all and upon all that believe. For there is no difference;

And will not God execute the judgment of his elect, who cry day and night to him, even though he waits long on them?

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on it is called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

But I tell you, that for every idle word which men speak they shall render an account in a day of judgment;

There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?

The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh, that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully;

for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin. BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

For we Jews by race and not sinners of the gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

For I tell you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

I do not reject the grace of God; for if rightousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

This only would I learn of you. Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by a hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit do you now end in the flesh?

But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he was to blame.

You have departed from Christ, whoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the grace.

although I have ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the flesh, I [may] more; circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as to the law a Pharisee, as to zeal persecuting the church, as to righteousness by the law being blameless.read more.
But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ. But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ