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21 Bible Verses About Justification

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Summary

  • The Greek verb dikaioo means to justify, declare righteous or acquit, and Romans 8:33-34 sets it against bringing a charge and condemning.
  • Genesis 15:6, Abraham believed and it was counted to him as righteousness, is quoted by Paul in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 and by James in James 2:23.
  • Romans 4:10 points out that Abraham was counted righteous before he was circumcised.
  • Romans 4:25 ties Jesus’s death to trespasses and his resurrection to justification.
  • James 2:24 says a person is justified by works and not by faith alone; the Council of Trent cites it for the increase of justification, and the Westminster Confession calls faith the alone instrument of justification but not alone in the person justified.

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…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Greek 1344, δικαιόω (dikaioo): to justify, to declare righteous, to acquit. biblehub.com/greek/1344

Council of Trent, Session VI, Decree on Justification, chapters VII and X. papalencyclicals.net

Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter 11, Of Justification, sections 1 and 2. opc.org/wcf.html

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