Popular Bible Verses from ROM 3

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For all people have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God—missing the mark of His holy standard and failing to reflect His image as originally intended. Yet believers are justified or declared righteous as a completely free gift, not earned but given by His unmerited grace, through the redemption—the payment of a ransom price—that is accomplished in Christ Jesus.

This is the righteousness that comes from God and is received through faith in Jesus Christ, available to all who believe. For there is no distinction or difference in how people receive salvation

God publicly set forth Christ Jesus as a propitiation—a sacrifice that satisfies God's wrath and turns away His righteous anger against sin—effective through His shed blood, to be appropriated through faith. God did this to demonstrate His own righteousness and justice, because in His patient forbearance during past ages, He had passed over sins previously committed without immediate full punishment. This demonstration of righteousness continues at the present time, so that God might be shown to be both perfectly just in His own character and the one who justifies or declares righteous the person who places his faith in Jesus.

Therefore, on the basis of performing works prescribed by the Law, no human being will be justified or declared righteous and acceptable before God, for the true function of the Law is to bring full awareness and deep knowledge of sin, not to provide salvation.

Just as the Scriptures declare: "There is no one who is righteous before God, not even a single person; there is no one who truly understands spiritual truth; there is no one who genuinely seeks after God on their own initiative. All have turned away from God and gone astray; together the entire human race has become spiritually worthless and unprofitable; there is no one who practises true goodness and kindness, not even one person."*

For we firmly conclude and maintain that a person is justified or declared righteous by God through faith alone, completely apart from performing the works required by the Law.

Absolutely not! Let it never be suggested that God is unfaithful! Rather, let God be acknowledged as true and faithful even if every human being proves to be a liar and unfaithful, just as the Scripture declares: "So that You may be proved righteous in Your words, and prevail as victor when You are brought into judgment."*