Justification Before God
48 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
20 sections
- Abraham
- Illustrated
- Paul
- Promised in Christ
- The Wicked Shall not Attain To
- Typified
- Under Law: Man Cannot Attain To
- Under Law: Requires Perfect Obedience
- Under the Gospel by Imputation of Christ's Righteousness
- Under the Gospel by the Blood of Christ
- Under the Gospel by the Resurrection of Christ
- Under the Gospel in the Name of Christ
- Under the Gospel is by Faith Alone
- Under the Gospel is not of Faith and Works United
- Under the Gospel is not of Works
- Under the Gospel is of Grace
- Under the Gospel: Blessedness of
- Under the Gospel: Ensures Glorification
- Under the Gospel: Entitles to an Inheritance
- Under the Gospel: Frees from Condemnation
Abraham
- Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Illustrated
- Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Paul
- Philippians 3:8–9 More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ …
Promised in Christ
- Isaiah 45:25 In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.
- Isaiah 53:11 After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
The Wicked Shall not Attain To
- Exodus 23:7 Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
Typified
- Zechariah 3:4–5 So the angel said to those standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes!” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have removed your iniquity, and I will clothe you with splendid robes.” …
Under Law: Man Cannot Attain To
- Job 9:2–3 “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? …
- Job 9:20 Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- Job 25:4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Psalm 130:3 If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Psalm 143:2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Romans 9:31–32 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. …
Under Law: Requires Perfect Obedience
- Leviticus 18:5 Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
- Romans 10:5 For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
- Romans 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- James 2:10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Under the Gospel by Imputation of Christ's Righteousness
- Isaiah 61:10 I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself …
- Jeremiah 23:6 In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
- Romans 3:22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
- Romans 5:18 So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.
- 1 Corinthians 1:30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Under the Gospel by the Blood of Christ
- Romans 5:9 Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
Under the Gospel by the Resurrection of Christ
- Romans 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- 1 Corinthians 15:17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
Under the Gospel in the Name of Christ
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. 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.
Under the Gospel is by Faith Alone
- John 5:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
- Acts 13:39 Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Romans 3:30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
- Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Galatians 2:16 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law …
Under the Gospel is not of Faith and Works United
- Acts 15:1–29 Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” …
- Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
- Romans 11:6 And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.
- Galatians 2:14–21 When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?” …
- Galatians 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
Under the Gospel is not of Works
- Acts 13:39 Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Galatians 2:16 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law …
- Galatians 3:11 Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Under the Gospel is of Grace
- Romans 3:24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 4:16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring — not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
- Romans 5:17–21 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! …
Under the Gospel: Blessedness of
- Psalm 32:1–2 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. …
- Romans 4:6–8 And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: …
Under the Gospel: Ensures Glorification
- Romans 8:30 And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
Under the Gospel: Entitles to an Inheritance
- Titus 3:7 so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
Under the Gospel: Frees from Condemnation
- Isaiah 50:8–9 The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me! …
- Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
- Romans 8:33–34 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.