Romans 3:20

The Entire World Guilty Of Sin

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. ²⁰ For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed --

Before God

Deeds of the Law

In the Sight of God

Justified by Works

Law of Moses

With God

Works of the Law

Observing The Law

Moses

No

Sin

Acts 13:39

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

Psalm 143:2

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

Job 15:15

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Job 25:4-5

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Romans 2:13

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

Romans 3:28

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

Romans 4:13

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 5:13

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

Romans 5:20

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

Romans 7:7-9

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Galatians 3:10-13

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

Galatians 5:4

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Titus 3:5-7

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

James 2:9-10

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

James 2:20-26

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?