SCRIPTURE
Romans 1: 16-17; 3: 22b-28
1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, "The one who is righteous will live by faith."
3:22b
For there is no distinction, 23 since all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God; 24 they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a sacrifice of
atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to show his
righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins
previously committed; 26 it was to prove at the present time that he himself is
righteous and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus. 27 Then what
becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No, but by
the law of faith. 28 For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from
works prescribed by the law.