Bible Verses About Justification

and be found in union with him, not having any righteousness of my own based on legalism, but having that righteousness which comes through the Messiah’s faithfulness, the righteousness from God based on trust.

You were dead because of your sins, that is, because of your “foreskin,” your old nature. But God made you alive along with the Messiah by forgiving you all your sins.

He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the execution-stake.

But, foolish fellow, do you want to be shown that such “faith” apart from actions is barren?

Wasn’t Avraham avinu declared righteous because of actions when he offered up his son Yitz’chak on the altar?

You see that his faith worked with his actions; by the actions the faith was made complete;

and the passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled which says, “Avraham had faith in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness.” He was even called God’s friend.