How can a person be justified? The repeated answer we find in Scripture is by faith. If faith plays such a decisive role in one’s relationship with God, we should expect it to be a prominent feature of the NT documents.
“The confession of divine justification touches man’s life at its heart, at the point of its relationship to God. It defines the preaching of the Church, the existence and progress of the life of faith, the root of human security, and man’s perspective for the future.”(G.C. Berkouwer)