He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.
By his wounds you have been healed.
–1 Peter 2:24 (ESV)–

²¹ But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. ²² This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies
those who have faith in Jesus.
–Romans 3:21-26 (NIV)–

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
–Revelation 20:11-12 (KJV)–

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John F. Johnson, “Luther on Justification,” Concordia Theological Monthly 38, no. 43 (1967): 417-419. Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana is a school for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), and is currently the online publisher of this theological journal. But the original print versions came from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Uuras Saarnivaara, Luther Discovers the Gospel (Concordia, 1951).

Ewald Plass, ed. What Luther Says: An Anthology, 3 vols (Concordia, 1959).

John Wesley, “The Scripture Way of Salvation” 1.3. We are at present concerned only with that salvation which the Apostle is directly speaking of. And this consists of two general parts, justification and sanctification.