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Repeat offenders: Romans 1:16-17, 3:22b-28; Matthew 7:21-29

Justification by grace through faith has been a perennial theme throughout the history of the people of God. St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans gives it classical articulation in the Christian Bible: “For all alike have sinned, and are deprived of the divine glory, and all are justified by God’s free grace alone, through God’s act of liberation in the person of Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3:23).