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28 For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.(A)

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24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

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so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.(A)

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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”(A)

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24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be reckoned as righteous[a] by faith.(A)

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  1. 3.24 Or be justified

But to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.

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26 it was to demonstrate at the present time his own righteousness, so that he is righteous and he justifies the one who has the faith of Jesus.[a]

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  1. 3.26 Or has faith in Jesus

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ,[a] the righteousness from God based on faith.(A)

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  1. 3.9 Or through the faith of Christ

not the result of works, so that no one may boast.

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11 Now it is evident that no one is reckoned as righteous before God by the law, for “the one who is righteous will live by faith.”[a](A) 12 But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, “Whoever does the works of the law[b] will live by them.”(B) 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”(C) 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.(D)

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  1. 3.11 Or The one who is righteous through faith will live
  2. 3.12 Gk does them

16 yet we know that a person is justified[a] not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ.[b] And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ[c] and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.(A)

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  1. 2.16 Or reckoned as righteous
  2. 2.16 Or faith in Jesus Christ
  3. 2.16 Or faith in Christ

11 And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ[a] and in the Spirit of our God.(A)

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  1. 6.11 Other ancient authorities lack Christ

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin,[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,(A)

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  1. 8.3 Or and as a sin offering

Results of Justification

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,(A)

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  1. 5.1 Other ancient authorities read let us

20 For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.(A)

Righteousness through Faith

21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets,(B) 22 the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ[a] for all who believe.[b] For there is no distinction,(C)

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  1. 3.22 Or through faith in Jesus Christ
  2. 3.22 Or trust

38 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers and sisters,[a] that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you;(A) 39 by this Jesus[b] everyone who believes is set free from all those sins[c] from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.(B)

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  1. 13.38 Gk Men, brothers
  2. 13.39 Gk this
  3. 13.39 Gk all

24 Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.(A)

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40 This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”(A)

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14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,(A) 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.[a](B)

16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.(C)

17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.(D) 18 Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.(E)

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  1. 3.15 Some interpreters hold that the quotation concludes with 3.15