Romans 3:20

No one is justified by keeping the law; instead the law reveals our sin. It shows the law cannot save, only diagnose.

Cross-references · 21

• Gal 2:16yet 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 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Rom 3:28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
• Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Rom 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Rom 4:13For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Rom 9:32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
• Gal 3:10–13For 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.”
• Rom 7:7–9What 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.”
• Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Eph 2:8–9for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
• Gal 5:4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
• Titus 3:5–7not 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,
• Ps 130:3If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
• Job 25:4–5How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Rom 5:13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
• Jas 2:20–26But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
• Jas 2:9–10But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
• Rom 2:13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
• Job 15:15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

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