Q.71. How is justification an act of God’s free grace?

A. By his obedience and death Christ made the correct, real, and full satisfaction to God’s justice on behalf of those who are justified.[1] Yet, insofar as this satisfaction is accepted by God as a guarantee of performance, which he might have demanded from the justified, and since God himself provided a guarantor in the person of his only Son,[2] in justification God imputes righteousness to the justified[3] and requires nothing from them in return except faith,[4] which they also have as a gift from him.[5] Consequently, justification comes to the justified as an act of God’s free grace.[6]

1	Romans 5:8-10	dummy text
	Romans 5:19	dummy text
2	1 Timothy 2:5-6	dummy text
	Hebrews 10:10	dummy text
	Matthew 20:28	dummy text
	Daniel 9:24	dummy text
	Daniel 9:26	dummy text
	Isaiah 53:4-6	dummy text
	Isaiah 53:10-12	dummy text
	Hebrews 7:22	dummy text
	Romans 8:32	dummy text
	1 Peter 1:18-19	dummy text
3	2 Corinthians 5:21	dummy text
4	Romans 3:24-25	dummy text
5	Ephesians 2:8	dummy text
6	Ephesians 1:17	dummy text