Galatians 2:16

New Century Version

Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ. It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law.

Cross References

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Job 9:29

I have already been found guilty, so why should I struggle for no reason?

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant, because no one alive is right before you.

John 20:31

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

Acts 4:12

Jesus is the only One who can save people. No one else in the world is able to save us.”

Romans 1:17

The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself—that it begins and ends with faith. As the Scripture says, “But those who are right with God will live by faith.”

Romans 3:30

Of course he is, because there is only one God. He will make Jews right with him by their faith, and he will also make those who are not Jews right with him through their faith.

Romans 4:2

If Abraham was made right by the things he did, he had a reason to brag. But this is not God’s view,

Romans 4:24

but also for us. God will accept us also because we believe in the One who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Romans 8:3

The law was without power, because the law was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son to be an offering for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin.

Romans 9:30

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

1 Corinthians 6:11

In the past, some of you were like that, but you were washed clean. You were made holy, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 4:5

God did this so he could buy freedom for those who were under the law and so we could become his children.

Galatians 5:4

If you try to be made right with God through the law, your life with Christ is over—you have left God’s grace.

Philippians 3:9

and to belong to him. Now I am right with God, not because I followed the law, but because I believed in Christ. God uses my faith to make me right with him.

1 Peter 1:2

God planned long ago to choose you by making you his holy people, which is the Spirit’s work. God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood of the death of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be yours more and more.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so we would stop living for sin and start living for what is right. And you are healed because of his wounds.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ himself suffered for sins once. He was not guilty, but he suffered for those who are guilty to bring you to God. His body was killed, but he was made alive in the spirit.

2 Peter 1:1

From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To you who have received a faith as valuable as ours, because our God and Savior Jesus Christ does what is right.

1 John 1:7

But if we live in the light, as God is in the light, we can share fellowship with each other. Then the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from every sin.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “You know, sir.” And the elder said to me, “These are the people who have come out of the great distress. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:9

After the vision of these things I looked, and there was a great number of people, so many that no one could count them. They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language of the earth. They were all standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.