Romans 3:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.”
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“Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
King James Version · Public Domain“because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 3:20 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Acts 13:39Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
- Romans 2:13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- Romans 3:28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
- Romans 4:13For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
- Romans 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
- Romans 5:13For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
- Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
- Romans 9:32Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
- Galatians 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
- Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
- Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Galatians 5:4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
- Ephesians 2:8For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- James 2:9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
- James 2:20O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
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