The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look [at this] glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.

All the people [who] heard [this], even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice [For] they had received the baptism of John.

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?

So He said to them, “You are the [ones who] justify [yourselves] before men, but God knows your hearts. For what [is] prized among men [is] detestable before God.

I tell you, this [man], rather than [the Pharisee], went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the [one who] humbles himself will be exalted.

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

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.

Certainly not! {Let} God be true and every man a liar. As it is written “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For [the] law merely brings awareness of sin.

[and are] justified freely by His grace through the redemption that [is] in Christ Jesus.

[He did this] to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the [one] [who has] faith in Jesus.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

since [there is only] one God, who will justify [the] circumcised by faith and [the] uncircumcised through that [same] faith.

If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.

However, to the [one who] does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

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!

For [anyone who] has died has been freed from sin.

And those He predestined, He also called; [those] He called, He [also] justified; [those] He justified, He also glorified.

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? [It is] God [who] justifies.

My conscience is clear but that does not vindicate me. It is [the] Lord who judges me.

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.

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.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!

The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, [and] foretold the gospel to Abraham “All nations will be blessed through you.”

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by [the] law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

{You} who are [trying] to be justified by [the] law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: [He] appeared in [the] flesh, was vindicated by [the] Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among [the] nations, was believed in throughout [the] world, was taken up in glory.

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

{Was} not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

As you can see a man is justified by [his] deeds and not by faith alone.

In the same way, {was} not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent [them] off on another route?