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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Genesis 15:6

Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 32:2

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 71:16

I will enter in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 89:16

They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 42:21

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 45:24, 25

Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame. / In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 46:12, 13

Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness: / I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 50:8

The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 51:5, 6

My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm. / Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 53:11

After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 54:17

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 56:1

This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 61:10

I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 23:6

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Habakkuk 2:4

Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 3:4

So the angel said to those standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes!” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have removed your iniquity, and I will clothe you with splendid robes.”

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning John 5:24

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 13:39

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 1:16, 17

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. / For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 3:21, 22, 24–26, 28, 30

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. / And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, / and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 4:3–25

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” / Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation. / However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 5:1, 9, 11–21

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, / Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! / Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 7:1–25

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? / For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. / So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 8:1, 30, 31, 33, 34

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. / And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified. / What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 9:30–32

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; / but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. / Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 10:1–21

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation. / For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge. / Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 5:19, 21

that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. / God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 2:14–21

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?” / We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners” / know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 3:6, 8, 9, 11, 21, 22, 24

So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” / The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” / So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 4:21–31

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says? / For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. / His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 5:4–6

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. / But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness. / For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 6:14

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Philippians 3:8, 9

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ / and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 2:13, 14

When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses, / having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 11:4, 7

By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead. / By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

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Justification: General Scriptures Concerning James 2:20–23, 26

O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless? / Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? / You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.

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