I believe that no man may stand before the LORD God, except that they are justified in His sight. Justification means that one's righteousness is equal to the righteousness of the LORD God, so that in all things one is as righteous as God. This justification is not possible, nor is it found in anyone or anything except the Lord Jesus Christ, and that by His work of atonement on the cross and subsequent resurrection. Justification is granted to all, who in repentance and faith, place their full trust and confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ and His shed blood. For one to be justified means that their sin has been pardoned, they are imputed with the righteousness of God and are granted eternal life in Christ Jesus, being born again of the Holy Ghost. All who refuse justification in Christ and determine that their work and merit are sufficient for justification will not be able to stand before the LORD in judgement and are rightly and properly condemned to everlasting torment.
(Job 25; Psalm 143:1-2; Job 40:6-8; Isaiah 43:8-11; Isaiah 45:22-25; Isaiah 53:10-12; Matthew 12:34-37; Romans 3:19-26; Romans 4:23-5:2; Romans 5:18; Titus 3:5-7; II Corinthians 5:20-21; Luke 18:9-14; Psalm 1:4-6; Isaiah 41:21-24; James 2:8-11).
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his
high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom
doth not his light arise? How then can man be justified with God?
or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Behold
even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure
in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the
son of man, which is a worm? (Job 25)
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy
faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And
enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall
no man living be justified. (Psalm 143:1-2)
Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and
declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt
thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? (Job
40:6-8)
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that
have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the
people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us
former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they
may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is
truth. Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my
servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and
understand that I am he: before me there was no God
formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I,
am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
(Isaiah 43:8-11)
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I
am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by
myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee
shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one
say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even
to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against
him shall be ashamed. In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be
justified, and shall glory. (Isaiah 45:22-25)
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him
to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall
see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he
shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with
the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and
he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah
53:10-12)
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth
good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth
forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that
men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy
words thou shalt be condemned. (Matthew 12:34-37)
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the
deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of
God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon
all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that
he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in
Jesus. (Romans 3:19-26)
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to
him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe
on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was
delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our
justification. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have
access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in
hope of the glory of God. (Romans 4:23-5:2)
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon
all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one
the free gift came upon all men unto justification of
life. (Romans 5:18)
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according
to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and
renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his
grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal
life. (Titus 3:5-7)
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech
you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye
reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. (II Corinthians 5:20-21)
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in
themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men
went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the
other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with
himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men
are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this
publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I
possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up
so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his
breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this
man went down to his house justified rather than the
other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and
he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. (Luke
18:9-14)
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff
which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not
stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the
righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the
way of the ungodly shall perish. (Psalm 1:4-6)
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong
reasons, saith the King of Jacob. Let them bring
them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew
the former things, what they be, that we may consider
them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for
to come. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may
know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we
may be dismayed, and behold it together. Behold, ye
are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination
is he that chooseth you. (Isaiah
41:21-24)
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect
to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as
transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that
said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou
commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a
transgressor of the law. (James 2:8-11)