Bible Verses About Justification, Adoption & Righteousness
In Christ, the guilty are declared righteous and the estranged are welcomed as God’s own children. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. These verses rest in a right standing and a family belonging that grace alone secures.
So now that we have been declared righteous by faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ had never known sin, yet for our sake God made him to be sin, so that, united with him, we might become God’s righteousness.
to redeem those who lived under the law, so that we might be adopted as children.
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
If we are children, we are also heirs. We are God’s heirs, and we inherit alongside Christ, if we suffer together with him so that we will also be glorified together with him.
For we are convinced that a person is declared righteous by faith, apart from works of the law.
So then, those who are in Christ Jesus now face no sentence of condemnation.
But to someone who does no work, yet believes in the God who declares the ungodly righteous, that faith is counted as righteousness.
and be found in him, with no righteousness of my own from keeping the law, but with the righteousness that comes through faith in Christ: righteousness from God, resting on faith.
What you received was not a spirit of slavery that would put you back under fear. You received the Spirit of adoption as children, and in the Spirit we call out, “Abba, Father!”
Who will bring any accusation against those God has chosen? God is the one who declares them righteous.
If death reigned through one man because of that one man’s trespass, it is far more certain that those who receive grace in full measure and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.