Justification Before God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 45:25 OT

  All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

• Isaiah 53:11 OT

  After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

• Isaiah 50:8 OT

  He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

• Romans 8:33 NT

  Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

• Leviticus 18:5 OT

  You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

• Romans 10:5 NT

  For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

• Romans 2:13 NT

  For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

• James 2:10 NT

  For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

• Job 9:2 OT

  “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

• Job 9:3 OT

  If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

• Job 9:20 OT

  Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

• Job 25:4 OT

  How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

• Psalms 130:3 OT

  If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

• Psalms 143:2 OT

  Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

• Romans 3:20 NT

  Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

• Romans 9:31 NT

  but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

• Romans 9:32 NT

  Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

• Acts 13:39 NT

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

• Romans 8:3 NT

  For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

• Galatians 2:16 NT

  yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be…

• Galatians 3:11 NT

  Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

• Acts 15:1-29 NT

  Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and…

• Romans 3:28 NT

  We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

• Romans 11:6 NT

  And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.