Justification

Justification is the doctrinal heart of this section — Paul is arguing that being declared righteous before God comes through faith in Christ alone, not through law observance.

Justification is the destination Paul has been building toward — the declared-not-guilty status that comes through faith, rendering the Law's supervisory role permanently obsolete.

Justification is the legal term Paul uses for what Jesus provides — being declared righteous before God, something the Law of Moses, despite its divine origin, could not accomplish for anyone.

Justification is used here as a warning — the text explicitly rejects Noah's curse as legitimate grounds for racial oppression, naming the historical misuse directly and calling it a complete distortion.

Justification is conspicuously absent — the narrator offers no explanation for Samson's visit to the prostitute, which is itself a literary statement about how normalized his boundary violations have become.