Romans 3:26

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Romans 3:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible

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

25 God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

26 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.

27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

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

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Zechariah 9:9

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Acts 13:38

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Acts 13:39

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Revelation 15:3

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Romans 3:30

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Romans 4:5

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Romans 8:33

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

Galatians 3:8

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

Galatians 3:9

So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Galatians 3:10

All who rely on works of 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.”

Galatians 3:11

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

Galatians 3:12

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Galatians 3:13

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Galatians 3:14

He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.