• ἔχομεν — SBLGNT
• ἔχομεν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
• ἔχωμεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles

• εἰρήνην ἔχομεν — Codex Alexandrinus (02/A); Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (04/C²); Majority of Byzantine MSS; Vulgate; Most modern translations
• εἰρήνην ἔχωμεν — Codex Sinaiticus (01/ℵ); Codex Vaticanus (03/B); Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (04/C*); Codex Bezae (05/D); P46 (likely)

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210209.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their ri…

Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Calvin shows the blessed fruits of justification: peace with God, access by faith into grace, and rejoicing in hope of glory. God commends his love in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The parallel between Adam and Christ is fundamental: as by one man sin entered the world and death by sin, so by one …

Is grace fittingly divided into gratuitous grace and sanctifying grace? The division into operating and cooperating grace The division of it into prevenient and subsequent grace The division of gratuitous grace The comparison between sanctifying and gratuitous grace Article 1. Whether grace is fittingly divided into sanctifying grace and gratuitous grace? Objection 1. It would …

Is God alone the efficient cause of grace? Is any disposition towards grace needed on the part of the recipient, by an act of free-will? Can such a disposition make grace follow of necessity? Is grace equal in all? May anyone know that he has grace? Article 1. Whether God alone is the cause of grace? Objection 1. It would seem that God alone is not the cause of grace. For it is…

What is the justification of the ungodly? Is grace required for it? Is any movement of the free-will required? Is a movement of faith required? Is a movement of the free-will against sin required? Is the remission of sins to be reckoned with the foregoing? Is the justification of the ungodly a work of time or is sudden? The natural order of the things concurring to justificatio…

When the Apostle says that man is justified by faith and freely, those words are to be understood in that sense which the perpetual consent of the Catholic Church hath held and expressed; to wit, that we are therefore said to be justified by faith, because faith is the beginning of human salvation, the foundation and root of all Justification; without which it is impossible to …

Before you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your actual transgressions against the law of God. Before we can have peace with God, we must be justified by faith through our Lord Jesus Christ; and in order to be justified, we must first be convinced of sin.

Justification is another word for pardon. It is the forgiveness of all our sins, and — what is necessarily implied therein — our acceptance with God. The price whereby this hath been procured for us is the blood and righteousness of Christ. The condition of it is faith, and faith alone — not works, not even evangelical obedience.

Q. What is true faith? A. True faith is not only a knowledge and conviction that everything God reveals in his Word is true; it is also a deep-rooted assurance, created in me by the Holy Spirit through the gospel, that, out of sheer grace earned for us by Christ, not only others, but I too, have had my sins forgiven, have been made forever right with God, and have been granted …

Q. What good does it do you, however, to believe all this? A. In Christ I am right with God and heir to life everlasting.

Q. What is the coming to life of the new self? A. It is wholehearted joy in God through Christ and a delight to do every kind of good as God wants us to.

We believe that the great gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in Him is justification; that justification includes the pardon of sin, and the promise of eternal life on principles of righteousness; that it is bestowed not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer's blood; by virtue of which fa…