Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'justified' occurs 59 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'justified' in the standard works and contain 27.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gal. 2:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Acts 13:39 (2 in 1 verse)


Rom. 8:30 (2 in 1 verse)

 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.




D&C 98:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

James 2:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:61-62 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 12 0 12
NT 31 0 31
BM 2 0 2
DC 13 0 13
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 59 0 59

Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 13:18
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Job 32:2
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.

Ps. 51:4
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Ps. 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Isa. 43:9
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.

Isa. 43:26
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Isa. 45:25
In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Jer. 3:11
And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

Ezek. 16:51
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

Ezek. 16:52
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Matt. 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Matt. 12:37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Luke 7:29
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Luke 7:35
But wisdom is justified of all her children.

Luke 18:14
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.

Acts 13:39
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Rom. 2:13
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Rom. 3:4
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Rom. 3:20
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.

Rom. 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom. 3:28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Rom. 4:2
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

Rom. 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Rom. 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Rom. 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

1 Cor. 4:4
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

1 Cor. 6:11
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Gal. 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Gal. 2:17
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Gal. 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Gal. 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Gal. 5:4
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

1 Tim. 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Titus 3:7
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

James 2:24
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

James 2:25
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

1 Ne. 16:2
And it came to pass that I said unto them that I knew that I had spoken hard things against the wicked, according to the truth; and the righteous have I justified, and testified that they should be lifted up at the last day; wherefore, the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center.

2 Ne. 2:5
And men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil. And the law is given unto men. And by the law no flesh is justified; or, by the law men are cut off. Yea, by the temporal law they were cut off; and also, by the spiritual law they perish from that which is good, and become miserable forever.

D&C 50:15
And then received ye spirits which ye could not understand, and received them to be of God; and in this are ye justified?

D&C 50:39
Wherefore, in this thing my servant Edward Partridge is not justified; nevertheless let him repent and he shall be forgiven.

D&C 63:19
And now behold, I, the Lord, say unto you that ye are not justified, because these things are among you.

D&C 64:13
And this ye shall do that God may be glorified-- not because ye forgive not, having not compassion, but that ye may be justified in the eyes of the law, that ye may not offend him who is your lawgiver--

D&C 67:7
Or, if there be any among you that shall make one like unto it, then ye are justified in saying that ye do not know that they are true;

D&C 88:39
All beings who abide not in those conditions are not justified.

D&C 97:2
Verily, verily I say unto you, blessed are such, for they shall obtain; for I, the Lord, show mercy unto all the meek, and upon all whomsoever I will, that I may be justified when I shall bring them unto judgment.

D&C 98:31
Nevertheless, thine enemy is in thine hands; and if thou rewardest him according to his works thou art justified; if he has sought thy life, and thy life is endangered by him, thine enemy is in thine hands and thou art justified.

D&C 132:1
Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines--

D&C 132:61
And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood-- if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.

D&C 132:62
And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.

D&C 134:11
We believe that men should appeal to the civil law for redress of all wrongs and grievances, where personal abuse is inflicted or the right of property or character infringed, where such laws exist as will protect the same; but we believe that all men are justified in defending themselves, their friends, and property, and the government, from the unlawful assaults and encroachments of all persons in times of exigency, where immediate appeal cannot be made to the laws, and relief afforded.

Moses 6:60
For by the water ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified;