CCC 1996 Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.1
1 Cf. Jn 1:12-18; 17:3; Rom 8:14-17; 2 Pet 1:3-4.