Justify

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

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.

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.

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

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