Romans 3:20

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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
  • Acts 13:39 : 39 Through Him, everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
  • Rom 3:28 : 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.
  • Rom 9:32 : 32 Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 Now the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more.
  • Rom 4:13 : 13 For the promise to Abraham or his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.' 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
  • Eph 2:8-9 : 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
  • Titus 3:5-7 : 5 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6 This Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, being justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • Jas 2:20-26 : 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless? 21 Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith was working together with his works, and by works his faith was made perfect. 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another route? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
  • Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.' 11 Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.' 12 The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.' 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.'
  • Rom 5:13 : 13 For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before you.
  • Job 15:15 : 15 Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in His sight.

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  • Gal 3:10-12
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    10For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.'

    11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

    12The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'

  • Rom 3:21-24
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    21But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, testified to by the Law and the Prophets.

    22This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

    23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

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

  • Rom 3:18-19
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    18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

    19Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Rom 3:26-28
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    26He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

    27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

    28For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Rom 3:9-10
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    9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

    10As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one."

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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

    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

  • Rom 5:13
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    13For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

  • Gal 3:21-22
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    21Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

    22But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise, by faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

  • Rom 7:7-8
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

  • Rom 8:2-4
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

    3For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh.

    4This was so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • Acts 13:39
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    39Through Him, everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

  • Rom 10:3-5
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    3For they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and seek to establish their own; they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

    4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

    5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”

  • Gal 3:24
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    24So the law was our guardian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Everyone who commits sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9We also know that the law is not made for the righteous but for the lawless and rebellious, the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and profane, those who strike their fathers and mothers, and murderers,

  • Rom 5:20
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    20Now the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29So that no one may boast before him.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;

    31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, did not attain it.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

  • Rom 4:5-6
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    5But to the one who does not work but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

    6Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

  • Eph 2:9
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    9not by works, so that no one can boast.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 7:18
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    18For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.