25 Bible Verses About Justification (ESV)

5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. 16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. 17 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. 19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

6 And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”