Justification and Jesus Christ’s work

Justification is grounded in the death of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ’s death shields believers from God’s wrath

Romans 5:9 KJV 1900

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

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Jesus Christ’s death fulfils the demands of the law of God

Romans 8:3–4 KJV 1900

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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Justification is grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Romans 4:25 KJV 1900

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

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Justification means believers are reckoned as righteous through the death of Jesus Christ

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Romans 5:19 KJV 1900

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

1 Corinthians 1:30 KJV 1900

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV 1900

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

See also ; The term “imputation” is used to refer to the process by which God treats believers as being righteous in his sight on account of Jesus Christ’s death.

Justification is received by faith

Romans 1:17 KJV 1900

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Ephesians 2:8 KJV 1900

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

The example of Abraham

Genesis 15:6 KJV 1900

And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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The example of David

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Apostolic teaching on the need of faith for justification

Acts 13:39 KJV 1900

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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Justification is a gift of God’s grace

Romans 3:24 KJV 1900

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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Not by works or the law

Galatians 3:11 KJV 1900

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

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