24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

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But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.

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Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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Faith Brings Joy

Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace[a] with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:1 Some manuscripts read let us have peace.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

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And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation.

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16 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.

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16 Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:16 Some translators hold that the quotation extends through verse 14; others through verse 16; and still others through verse 21.

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

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and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ.[a] For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:9 Or through the faithfulness of Christ.