JUSTIFICATION by works, grace, or faith?

[TonyChanYT]

Yes, all of the above.

By works, Rom 2:

13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Jame 2:

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

25And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

G1344-justify appears 39 times. It is used generally to mean to render righteous.

By grace, Rom 3:

24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

By faith

29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

Now, on the other hand, Rom 3:

20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Works alone are not sufficient, you need faith as well.

Rom 3:

27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Don't boast about your human works. Without faith in God, no one is justified.

29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Since we don't need the works of the law, may as well throw it away. No, not at all. Do not overgeneralize and misunderstand Paul's point. Works are necessary; just don't boast about it. Without grace, your works are useless to justify you for eternal life.

Rom 4:

2 If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Even Abraham was not justified without faith. The word "justified" has different nuances. We need all three, works, grace, and faith, to be justified (in all the different nuances).