The Augsburg Confession
Philipp Melanchthon, 1530 · Public domain
This page holds Article IV only
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Article IV: Of Justification
“Justified freely, for Christ's sake, through faith.”
The core clause of Article IV. Word-for-word rendering varies by translation and edition; this short phrase is stable across public-domain English versions. The full article, in context, is at the Book of Concord.