Romans 3:20

World English Bible (2000)

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • Acts 13:39 : 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Rom 3:28 : 28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
  • Rom 9:32 : 32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • Rom 4:13 : 13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
  • Eph 2:8-9 : 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, that no one would boast.
  • Titus 3:5-7 : 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • Jas 2:20-26 : 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
  • Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith." 12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them." 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
  • Rom 5:13 : 13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Job 15:15 : 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

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  • Gal 3:10-12
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    10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

    11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

    12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

  • Rom 3:21-24
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    21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

    22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

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

    24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

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

    19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Rom 3:26-28
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    26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

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

    28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Rom 3:9-10
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    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

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

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

    14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

  • Rom 5:13
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    13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

  • Gal 3:21-22
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    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

    22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

  • Rom 7:7-8
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    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

    8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

    3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

    4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Acts 13:39
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    39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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

  • Rom 10:3-5
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    3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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

    5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

  • Gal 3:24
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    24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  • Rom 5:20
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    20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

  • Rom 7:5
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29 that no flesh should boast before God.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

    31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

  • Rom 4:5-6
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    5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

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

  • Eph 2:9
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    9 not of works, that no one would boast.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 7:18
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    18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.