27 Bible Verses About Justification

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.

And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the Lord’s anointed.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;

And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.