situation, God sent His Son to die for our sins, in our place. When we believe in Jesus, He credits His righteousness to us, and we are declared righteous or “not guilty” before God. In this way, God demonstrates that He is both a righteous Judge and the One who declares us righteous, our Justifier (Rom. 3:26). Almost all discussion of “justification” in the New Testament is found in the letters of Paul, primarily in those letters to the Romans and the Galatians. In these two letters, “justification”