'Justify' in the Bible

So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found.”

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

“Then if you have anything to say, answer me;Speak, for I desire to justify you.

Who justify the wicked for a bribe,And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!

As a result of the anguish of His soul,He will see it and be satisfied;By His knowledge the Righteous One,My Servant, will justify the many,As He will bear their iniquities.

“Can I justify wicked scalesAnd a bag of deceptive weights?

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

And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.

since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”