The Position of Faith in Jesus Christ in the Skeletal Framework The New Testament everywhere makes it plain that faith in Jesus Christ is the instrumental precondition of justification before God, but nowhere is this truth more clearly affirmed than in Galatians 2:16: Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith [διὰ πίστεως, dia pisteōs] in Jesus Christ, we also have believed in [ἐπιστεύσαμεν εἰς, episteusamen eis] Christ Jesus in order that we may be justified