'Justified' in the Bible

Samson said to them, "This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!"

The Gibeonites said to him, "We have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel." David asked, "What then are you asking me to do for you?"

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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.

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life."

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?