義認に関する21の聖句

In the Bible, to justify is to declare a person in the right before God. Paul’s letters say God does this for the ungodly through faith in Jesus Christ, apart from works of the law, in Romans 3:28, Romans 4:5 and Galatians 2:16, while James 2:21-24 uses the same verb of Abraham’s works. Paul builds his case on Old Testament texts: Abraham believed the Lord and “he counted it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6), David blesses the one “against…