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I.  THE MEANS OF JUSTIFICATION HERE REJECTED.

II.  THE MEANS ACKNOWLEDGED AND EXHIBITED. Faith —

1. In what.

2. In what sense.

3. To what extent.Learn:

1. That guilt does not prevent justification.

2. No circumstances constitute an exception to the mode of justification.

3. Justification is within the reach of all who can believe.

(S. Martin.)

I. JUSTIFICATION.

1. It includes —

(1)  freedom from guilt;

(2)  Divine acceptance.

2. It is grounded on obedience to the law —

(1)  Personally or

(2)  by substitute. The former justifies unfallen angels, the latter by Christ accepted justifies the sinner.

II. The INSTRUMENT Of justification — Faith.

(J. C. Jones.)

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KJV: 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.

WEB: yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.