Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”

since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.