Date: May. 17, 2026
Question
What is justification?
Answer
Justification is the act of God's free grace by which He pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in His sight. He does so only because He counts the righteousness of Christ as ours. Justification is received by faith alone.
Reference Passages
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
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.
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.
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
