Romans 3:20

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Summary

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.

Therefore

No flesh

James 2:20

For by the

Romans 7:7

Galatians 2:19

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Bible References

Therefore

We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted,

The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression.

No flesh

But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?

For by the

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

General references

The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;