Chapter, Paragraph
1 Pre, 5 | of our justification by God's grace through faith in
2 1, 8 | listening to the word of God in Scripture has led to
3 1, 8 | we hear the gospel that "God so loved the world that
4 1, 8 | Old Testament we listen to God's word about human sinfulness (
5 1, 8 | 9:16f,26) as well as of God's "righteousness" (Isa 46:
6 1, 9 | Rom 6:7), "reconciled to God" (2 Cor 5:18-21; cf. Rom
7 1, 9 | Rom 5:11), "peace with God" (Rom 5:1), "new creation" (
8 1, 9 | 2 Cor 5:17), "alive to God in Christ Jesus" (Rom 6:
9 1, 9 | of sinful human beings by God's grace through faith (Rom
10 1, 10| the gospel as the power of God for salvation of the person
11 1, 10| that "the righteousness of God is revealed through faith
12 1, 10| Jeremiah proclaimed about God himself (Jer 23:6). In Christ'
13 1, 10| human beings are in need of God's righteousness, "since
14 1, 10| fall short of the glory of God" (Rom 3:23; cf. Rom 1:18-
15 1, 10| Gen 15:6) as faith in the God who justifies the sinner (
16 1, 10| like Abraham, trust in God's promise. "For the righteous
17 1, 10| 17). In Paul's letters, God's righteousness is also
18 1, 10| s righteousness is also God's power for those who have
19 1, 10| through Christ Jesus "whom God put forward as a sacrifice
20 1, 10| doing; it is the gift of God - not the result of works" (
21 1, 11| acceptance into communion with God: already now, but then fully
22 1, 11| already now, but then fully in God's coming kingdom (Rom 5:
23 1, 11| 12:12f). All this is from God alone, for Christ's sake,
24 1, 11| faith in "the gospel of God's Son" (Rom 1:1-3). ~
25 1, 12| they must constantly hear God's promises anew, confess
26 1, 12| accord with the will of God. That is why the Apostle
27 1, 12| and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling
28 3, 15| is the work of the triune God. The Father sent his Son
29 3, 15| part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit,
30 3, 16| All people are called by God to salvation in Christ.
31 3, 16| in faith. Faith is itself God's gift through the Holy
32 3, 16| that renewal of life which God will bring to completion
33 3, 17| New Testament witness to God's saving action in Christ:
34 3, 17| and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we
35 3, 18| 1 Tim 2:5f) through whom God in the Holy Spirit gives
36 4, 19| completely on the saving grace of God for their salvation. The
37 4, 19| sinners they stand under God's judgment and are incapable
38 4, 19| turning by themselves to God to seek deliverance, of
39 4, 19| their justification before God, or of attaining salvation
40 4, 19| Justification takes place solely by God's grace. Because Catholics
41 4, 20| justification by consenting to God's justifying action, they
42 4, 21| sinners they actively oppose God and his saving action. Lutherans
43 4, 21| faith, which is effected by God's Word. [cf. Sources for
44 4, 22| We confess together that God forgives sin by grace and
45 4, 22| faith to share in Christ, God no longer imputes to them
46 4, 22| love. These two aspects of God's gracious action are not
47 4, 22| and the saving presence of God himself. Because Catholics
48 4, 23| granted righteousness before God in Christ through the declaration
49 4, 23| renewed. When they stress that God's grace is forgiving love ("
50 4, 23| forgiving love ("the favor of God"12), they do not thereby
51 4, 24| they wish to insist that God's forgiving grace always
52 4, 24| do not thereby deny that God's gift of grace in justification
53 4, 25| in the saving action of God in Christ. By the action
54 4, 25| They place their trust in God's gracious promise by justifying
55 4, 25| which includes hope in God and love for him. Such a
56 4, 26| Lutheran understanding, God justifies sinners in faith
57 4, 26| live in communion with him. God himself effects faith as
58 4, 26| his creative word. Because God's act is a new creation,
59 4, 26| comes forth from the love of God imparted to the person in
60 4, 27| which makes us children of God. In justification the righteous
61 4, 27| new personal relation to God is grounded totally on God'
62 4, 27| God is grounded totally on God's graciousness and remains
63 4, 27| working of this gracious God, who remains true to himself,
64 4, 27| could appeal over against God. While Catholic teaching
65 4, 27| love is always dependent on God's unfathomable grace and
66 4, 27| which one could boast before God (Rom 3:27). [See Sources
67 4, 28| life constantly look to God's unconditional justifying
68 4, 28| against the contradiction to God within the selfish desires
69 4, 28| justified also must ask God daily for forgiveness as
70 4, 29| totally righteous, in that God forgives their sins through
71 4, 29| they are made just before God. Looking at themselves through
72 4, 29| false gods and do not love God with that undivided love
73 4, 29| that undivided love which God requires as their Creator (
74 4, 29| This contradiction to God is as such truly sin. Nevertheless,
75 4, 29| no longer separated from God, because in the daily return
76 4, 29| that their opposition to God is truly sin, they do not
77 4, 29| they are not separated from God and that this sin is a "
78 4, 30| inclination does not correspond to God's original design for humanity
79 4, 30| objectively in contradiction to God and remains one's enemy
80 4, 30| inclination in contradiction to God does not merit the punishment
81 4, 30| the justified person from God. But when individuals voluntarily
82 4, 30| separate themselves from God, it is not enough to return
83 4, 30| imparted to them in virtue of God's reconciling work in Christ. [
84 4, 31| salvation. We also confess that God's commandments retain their
85 4, 31| teaching and example expressed God's will which is a standard
86 4, 32| unreservedly to the mercy of God in Christ, which alone justifies
87 4, 33| righteous are bound to observe God's commandments, they do
88 4, 33| that through Jesus Christ God has mercifully promised
89 4, 34| the mercy and promises of God. In spite of their own weakness
90 4, 34| the effective promise of God's grace in Word and Sacrament
91 4, 35| trust only him. In trust in God's promise they are assured
92 4, 36| entrust oneself totally to God19, who liberates us from
93 4, 36| sense, one cannot believe in God and at the same time consider
94 4, 36| untrustworthy. No one may doubt God's mercy and Christ's merit.
95 4, 36| may yet be certain that God intends his salvation. [
96 4, 38| righteousness that comes from God is preserved and communion
97 4, 39| righteousness as acceptance by God and sharing in the righteousness
98 4, 39| sense of the fulfillment of God's promise to the believer. [
99 5, 43| relationship between the Word of God and church doctrine, as
100 App | Pauline way of representing God's saving work" (USA, no.
101 App | hinder 'the proclamation of God's free and merciful promises
102 App | one mediator through whom God in the Holy Spirit pours
103 App | of faith' (Rom. 1:5) in God's saving action in Christ
104 App | from the forgiving love of God, which we merely allow to
105 App | interpretation of our relationship to God can claim the name of 'Christian'.
106 App | interpretation of our relationship to God can claim the name of "Christian".
107 App | which is the free gift of God's grace. Even the beginnings
108 App | for forgiveness, must be God's work in us" (USA, no.
109 App | construes the relation of God to his human creatures in
110 App | s willing acceptance of God's grace - which is itself
111 App | which is itself a gift of God - has no essential role
112 App | is not a legal fiction. God, in justifying, effects
113 App | and renewing character of God's love; nor does it maintain ..
114 App | nor does it maintain ..God's impotence toward a sin
115 App | to divide the sinner from God" (LV:E 49). ~- "The Lutheran
116 App | doctrine understands grace as God's favor, but nevertheless
117 App | commandment always means love to God and hope in him and is expressed
118 App | justification and that all of God's saving gifts come through
119 App | new life, but solely on God's gracious promise. Acceptance
120 App | clings unconditionally to God's promise in Word and Sacrament
121 App | for righteousness before God, so that the renewal of
122 App | could make any appeal before God. Nevertheless it feels compelled
123 App | the sake of acknowledging God's newly creating power;
124 App | nothing but a response to God's unfathomable grace" (LV:
125 App | but a response effected by God's word itself, and that
126 App | could make any appeal before God, our objection ..no longer
127 App | therefore must pray daily to God for forgiveness" (USA, no.
128 App | are in contradiction to God ..object of the lifelong
129 App | cuts that person off from God; in Tridentine language,
130 App | justified a 'contradiction to God' and thus qualifies it as
131 App | keep the commandments of God, this canon does not strike
132 App | expressions of the commandments of God; otherwise it would apply
133 App | human beings live before God in spite of their weakness,
134 App | reliability and sufficiency of God's promise, and the power
135 App | not doubt "the mercy of God, the merit of Christ and
136 App | assurance on the forgiveness of God uttered in the absolution ..
137 App | and self-commitment to God and his word of promise.
138 App | the same time believe that God is unreliable in his word
139 App | faith' ..must be given to God who reveals, an obedience
140 App | his whole self freely to God, offering 'the full submission
141 App | of intellect and will to God who reveals', and freely
142 App | but depends completely on God, whose grace is bestowed
143 App | righteousness received from God and a deeper communion with
144 App | Christian's acceptance by God, it strikes to us; for this
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