Question 37
What is justification?
Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein He pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.1
Scripture
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Romans 3:24 [1]and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, (ESV)
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Ephesians 1:7 [1]In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, (ESV)
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2 Corinthians 5:21 [1]For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (ESV)
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Romans 5:19 [1]For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. (ESV)
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Philemon 9 [1]yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— (ESV)
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Galatians 2:16 [1]yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. (ESV)