And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

yet we know ¹  that no one ²  is justified by the works of the law ³  but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. ⁴  And ⁵  we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ ⁶  and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one ⁷  will be justified.

But they are justified ¹  freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

And so, ¹  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ² 

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

For we consider that a person ¹  is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law. ² 

For if Abraham was declared righteous ¹  by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated by the Lord and will boast in him. ¹ 

and by this one ¹  everyone who believes is justified ²  from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify ³  you. ⁴ 

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. ¹ 

¹ Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have ²  peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous ¹  by his blood, ²  we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. ³ 

Thus the law had become our guardian ¹  until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous ²  by faith.

You who are trying to be declared righteous ¹  by the law have been alienated ²  from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified ¹  rather than the Pharisee. ²  For everyone who exalts ³  himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. ¹ 

For no one is declared righteous before him ¹  by the works of the law, ²  for through the law comes ³  the knowledge of sin.