If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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TSK · Acts 13:39
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And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
¶ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
‹I tell you, this man went down to his house justified› [rather] ‹than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.›
‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.›
¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.
[Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: