Romans 3:28

God's Word

We conclude that a person has God’s approval by faith, not by his own efforts.

Cross References

John 5:24

I can guarantee this truth: Those who listen to what I say and believe in the one who sent me will have eternal life. They won’t be judged because they have already passed from death to life.

John 6:40

My Father wants all those who see the Son and believe in him to have eternal life. He wants me to bring them back to life on the last day.”

Romans 3:26

He waited so that he could display his approval at the present time. This shows that he is a God of justice, a God who approves of people who believe in Jesus.

Romans 4:5

However, when people don’t work but believe God, the one who approves ungodly people, their faith is regarded as the basis of God’s approval.

Romans 5:1

Now that we have God’s approval by faith, we have peace with God because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done.

Romans 8:3

It is impossible to do what God’s standards demand because of the weakness our human nature has. But God sent his Son to have a human nature as sinners have and to pay for sin. That way God condemned sin in our corrupt nature.

1 Corinthians 6:11

That’s what some of you were! But you have been washed and made holy, and you have received God’s approval in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16

Yet, we know that people don’t receive God’s approval by any effort to follow the laws in the Scriptures, but only by believing in Jesus Christ. So we also believed in Jesus Christ in order to receive God’s approval by faith in Christ and not by our own efforts. People won’t receive God’s approval by their own efforts.

Galatians 3:24

Before Christ came, Moses’ laws served as our guardian. Christ came so that we could receive God’s approval by faith.

Galatians 3:8

Scripture saw ahead of time that God would give his approval to non-Jewish people who have faith. So Scripture announced the Good News to Abraham ahead of time when it said, “Through you all the people of the world will be blessed.”

Ephesians 2:9

It’s not the result of anything you’ve done, so no one can brag about it.

Philippians 3:9

and to have a relationship with him. This means that I didn’t receive God’s approval by obeying his laws. The opposite is true! I have God’s approval through faith in Christ. This is the approval that comes from God and is based on faith

Titus 3:7

As a result, God in his kindness  has given us his approval and we have become heirs who have the confidence that we have everlasting life.

James 2:18

Another person might say, “You have faith, but I do good things.” Show me your faith apart from the good things you do. I will show you my faith by the good things I do.

James 2:20

You fool! Do you have to be shown that faith which does nothing is useless?

James 2:24

You see that a person receives God’s approval because of what he does, not only because of what he believes.