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

for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.

for not the bare hearers of the law, but they who observe the law, are such as shall be justified, before God.

Besides, the promise that he should possess the world, was not made to Abraham, or to his posterity in consideration of the law, but with regard to the righteousness by faith.

why? because they sought it not by faith, but indeed by the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

by him, every one who believes, is purged from all that guilt, for which the law of Moses had made no such provision.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, " cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:"

Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation.

for by grace are ye saved, thro' faith (and that not from us:

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

but partiality is iniquity; and the law will convict the offender of transgression.

No flesh

Vain man, must I show you how lifeless a thing faith is, without its effects?

For by the

Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."

for by one law, I am dead to the other law, that I might live unto God:

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these two precepts comprehend the substance of all the law and the prophets.

of sin, because they believ'd not on me;

for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.

it is the gift of God) but not by works, so that no man can boast: