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Justification names 2 things on this site
- Justification, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Justification by Faith, a featured study.The courtroom at the center of Romans: the charge, the verdict-word dikaioo, the mercy-seat ground, and the faith counted for righteousness.
Featured studies
5 results- StudyJustification by FaithThe courtroom at the center of Romans: the charge, the verdict-word dikaioo, the mercy-seat ground, and the faith counted for righteousness.
- StudyThe New Perspective on PaulWhat Sanders, Dunn, and Wright actually claim (covenantal nomism, works of the law as boundary markers, justification as covenant membership) presented at full strength, with the Reformation…
- StudySalvation: what we believeBy grace, through faith, on the ground of what Jesus Christ finished at the cross, received as a gift, never earned by works, and evidenced by a life that begins to change.
- StudyGalatians: the Study GuidePaul's most urgent letter, defended in three movements: his gospel from Christ not man, justification by faith not works of the law, and freedom lived by the Spirit not license.
- StudyRomansThe gospel argued to the ground: the seven-movement argument, the Romans Road, justification by faith, and grace reigning to the glory of God.
Verses
5 results- VerseRomans 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
- VerseActs 19:40For we are in jeopardy of being charged with rioting for today’s events, and we have no justification to account for this commotion.”
- VerseRomans 5:18So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.
- VerseRomans 5:16Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought…
- VerseEzekiel 16:52So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than…
Words (Strong's)
3 results- WordG1347 δικαίωσις · dikaíōsis (Greek)aquittal (for Christ's sake). The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordG1345 δικαίωμα · dikaíōma (Greek)an equitable deed. The Greek word stands 10 times in the original text.
- WordG1343 δικαιοσύνη · dikaiosýnē (Greek)equity (of character or act). The Greek word stands 92 times in the original text.
Themes
5 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
Topics
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2 results- VoiceJohn GillJohn Gill was born at Kettering in Northamptonshire on November 23, 1697, the son of a wool merchant who served as a deacon in the dissenting congregation there. Because the…
- VoiceJohn PiperJohn Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is an American Reformed Baptist theologian, pastor, and author. Educated at Wheaton College (B.A. literature, 1968), Fuller…