If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself,
and your righteousness only the sons of men.
-Job 35:7-8
Open for me the gates of righteousness;
I will enter and give thanks to the LORD.
This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter.
-Psalm 118:19-20
All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
-Isaiah 64:6
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
and are justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
-Romans 3:23-24
He was delivered over to death for our sins
and was raised to life for our justification.
-Romans 4:25
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
-Romans 5:1
Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men,
so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
For just as through the disobedience of the the one man the many were made sinners,
so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
-Romans 5:18-19
Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God
and sought to establish their own,
they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
Christ is the end of the law
so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
-Romans 10:3-4
It is because of him that you in Christ Jesus,
who has become for us wisdom from God -
that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
-1 Corinthians 1:30
All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written:
“Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Clearly no one is justified before God by the law,
because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
-Galatians 3:10-11
And be found in him,
not having a righteousness of my own
that comes from the law,
but that which is through faith in Christ -
the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
-Philippians 3:9
We have been justified by the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
None of our works make us righteous, but only through Jesus Christ.
God justified all who believed in Jesus alone.
♥Faith comes from hearing♥
