'Justify' in the Bible

"What can we say, Your Excellency?" Judah replied. "How can we explain this or justify ourselves? God has discovered the sin of your servants, and now we've become slaves to you, Your Excellency, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been discovered."

But the man wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.

because we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, and there is no good reason we can give to justify this commotion."

Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

since there is only one God who will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised by that same faith.

He was sentenced to death because of our sins and raised to life to justify us.

Because the Scripture saw ahead of time that God would justify the gentiles by faith, it announced the gospel to Abraham beforehand when it said, "Through you all nations will be blessed."