What does the Bible say about justification?

Key Bible verses about justification

1. Romans 3:23-26

   for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

2. Romans 3:28

   We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

3. Romans 4:4-5

   Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

4. Romans 4:25

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

5. Romans 5:1

   Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

6. Romans 8:33-34

   Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

7. Galatians 2:16

   yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

8. Galatians 3:11

   Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

9. 2 Corinthians 5:21

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

10. Philippians 3:8-9

    Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

11. Titus 3:7

    that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

12. Isaiah 53:11

    After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Scripture: World English Bible (public domain). Short quotations in the introduction are from the ESV. Read each passage in its chapter for the full context.