Romans 3:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

In his sight

Job 15:15

Job 25:5

For by the

Romans 7:7

Galatians 2:19

General references

Ephesians 2:9

Bible References

Therefore

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

No flesh

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?

And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

In his sight

“Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight;

“If even the moon has no brightness
And the stars are not pure in His sight,

For by the

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not

covet.”

For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.

General references

And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.