'Justified' in the Bible
If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Then was kindled the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his anger kindled, because he justified himself rather than God;
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them declareth this, or causeth us to hear former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own cause, that thou mayest be justified.
In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
And Samaria hath not sinned according to the half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own confusion, because of thy sins in which thou hast acted more abominably than they: they are more righteous than thou. So be thou ashamed also, and bear thy confusion, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.