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 CSB

How much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by his blood, will we be saved through him from wrath.

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

Romans 8:3–4 CSB

What the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering, in order that the law’s requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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Justification is grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Romans 4:25 CSB

He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

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

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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 CSB

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

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The example of Abraham

Genesis 15:6 CSB

Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as 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 CSB

Everyone who believes is justified through him from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

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Justification is a gift of God’s grace

Romans 3:24 CSB

They are 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 CSB

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.

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