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 NKJV

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

See also Ro 3:24; Ro 4:25; Ro 5:18; 1 Pe 2:24

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

Romans 8:3–4 NKJV

For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

See also Ro 3:25–26; Ga 3:13; 1 Jn 2:2

Justification is grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Romans 4:25 NKJV

who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

See also Ac 2:22–39; Ac 4:10–12; Ac 17:30–31; 1 Pe 3:18–21

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

Ro 5:19; 1 Co 1:30; 2 Co 5:21

See also 1 Co 6:9–11; Php 3:8–9 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 NKJV

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

See also Hab 2:4; Ro 5:1; Eph 2:8

The example of Abraham

Genesis 15:6 NKJV

And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

See also Ro 4:1–5; Ro 4:9–22; Ga 3:6–9; Ga 3:16–18

The example of David

Ro 4:6–8; Ps 32:1–2

Apostolic teaching on the need of faith for justification

Acts 13:39 NKJV

and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

See also Ro 3:22; Ro 3:25; Ro 3:27–30; Ro 4:5; Ro 5:1; Ro 9:30–32; Ro 10:10; 1 Co 6:11; Ga 2:16; Ga 3:8; Ga 3:14; Eph 2:8

Justification is a gift of God’s grace

Romans 3:24 NKJV

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

See also Ro 5:15–17; Ro 8:33; Tt 3:7

Not by works or the law

Galatians 3:11 NKJV

But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”

See also Ro 3:20; Ro 4:5; Ga 2:16; Ga 2:21; Ga 3:2–5; Ga 3:24; Ga 5:4–6; Eph 2:8–9