100 Bible Verses about Justification By Faith Alone

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 1,598 helpful votes

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Romans 3:28 ESV / 1,462 helpful votes

For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 1,350 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 4:5 ESV / 1,263 helpful votes

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

Philippians 3:9 ESV / 1,121 helpful votes

And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

Romans 4:3 ESV / 1,119 helpful votes

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 1,062 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 972 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

James 2:24 ESV / 939 helpful votes

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

John 5:24 ESV / 914 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Galatians 2:21 ESV / 842 helpful votes

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Romans 3:20 ESV / 803 helpful votes

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

John 3:16 ESV / 791 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 11:6 ESV / 772 helpful votes

But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Galatians 3:24 ESV / 766 helpful votes

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

James 2:23 ESV / 753 helpful votes

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 715 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Genesis 15:6 ESV / 688 helpful votes

And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

John 1:12 ESV / 679 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Romans 4:16 ESV / 670 helpful votes

That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Romans 3:22 ESV / 659 helpful votes

The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 657 helpful votes

What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ...

John 3:36 ESV / 635 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

James 2:20 ESV / 633 helpful votes

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

Acts 16:31 ESV / 633 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

James 2:14 ESV / 627 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

James 2:1-26 ESV / 626 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...

Romans 1:17 ESV / 585 helpful votes

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Romans 4:11 ESV / 568 helpful votes

He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,

Romans 9:30 ESV / 566 helpful votes

What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;

Romans 3:26 ESV / 540 helpful votes

It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:24 ESV / 528 helpful votes

And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Galatians 3:8 ESV / 515 helpful votes

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”

Romans 5:9 ESV / 514 helpful votes

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Galatians 3:11 ESV / 512 helpful votes

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

Galatians 3:22 ESV / 505 helpful votes

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 500 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

John 3:18 ESV / 488 helpful votes

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

James 2:14-26 ESV / 486 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 486 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 485 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 476 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 473 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 5:1-2 ESV / 451 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Galatians 3:6 ESV / 444 helpful votes

Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

1 Timothy 1:16 ESV / 439 helpful votes

But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

Galatians 3:14 ESV / 437 helpful votes

So that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Acts 10:43 ESV / 437 helpful votes

To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Romans 10:9 ESV / 419 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 3:30 ESV / 416 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 408 helpful votes

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 405 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

John 6:40 ESV / 405 helpful votes

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Romans 4:25 ESV / 403 helpful votes

Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 395 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 2:13 ESV / 394 helpful votes

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

James 2:17 ESV / 388 helpful votes

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 388 helpful votes

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

James 2:10 ESV / 381 helpful votes

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Romans 3:27 ESV / 379 helpful votes

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Romans 5:18 ESV / 370 helpful votes

Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

Romans 3:25 ESV / 368 helpful votes

Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 365 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 13:39 ESV / 364 helpful votes

And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 362 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

John 6:47 ESV / 362 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 6:28-29 ESV / 358 helpful votes

Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

Acts 26:18 ESV / 355 helpful votes

To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

John 1:29 ESV / 353 helpful votes

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Acts 2:38 ESV / 345 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 3:1-29 ESV / 344 helpful votes

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— ...

Mark 16:16 ESV / 343 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 333 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

James 2:21 ESV / 332 helpful votes

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 332 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Galatians 3:10 ESV / 327 helpful votes

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

Romans 3:10 ESV / 327 helpful votes

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Romans 8:1 ESV / 320 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:4 ESV / 319 helpful votes

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 311 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mark 1:15 ESV / 304 helpful votes

And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Romans 10:17 ESV / 303 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 301 helpful votes

“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 300 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 10:3 ESV / 296 helpful votes

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 290 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

John 8:24 ESV / 280 helpful votes

I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

John 20:31 ESV / 275 helpful votes

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 273 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 271 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Romans 8:4 ESV / 267 helpful votes

In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 266 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 261 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Romans 1:5 ESV / 258 helpful votes

Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

Romans 3:24-25 ESV / 257 helpful votes

And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

Luke 7:50 ESV / 255 helpful votes

And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

John 5:28-29 ESV / 250 helpful votes

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Romans 4:2 ESV / 244 helpful votes

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Romans 3:21-26 ESV / 238 helpful votes

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ...

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 235 helpful votes

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...

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