indicates that the ten year threshold of infertility required by the surrounding culture had been met, justifying

raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified

of his Son’s costly death  should work itself out in all the elect,  in order that God might grant justifying

He would have been perfectly justified to send fire and brimstone down upon them from on high.

Although He would have been justified in doing so, the LORD doesn't leave His people in the misery they

referred to as the unbreakable 'golden chain' of our salvation: God foreknew, predestined, called, justified

Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified

We certainly do not want to justify Rebekah & Jacob's ruse - it was sinful to the core.

In other words, God decreed  to grant them true faith in Christ, to justify them,  to sanctify them, 

In other words, God decreed  to grant them true faith in Christ, to justify them,  to sanctify them,