For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law: but through the righteousness which cometh of faith.

And wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith: but as it were, by the works of the law. For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

And that by him are all that believe justified from all things, from the which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

know that a man is not justified by the deeds of the law: but by the faith of Jesus Christ - and therefore we have believed on Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the deeds of the law: because that no flesh shall be justified by the deeds of the law.

For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."

Ye are gone quite from Christ as many as are justified by the law, and are fallen from grace.

For by grace are ye made safe through faith, and that, not of yourselves: For it is the gift of God,

not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,

But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.

No flesh

But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

If thou, LORD wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O LORD who may abide it?

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Wilt thou understand, o thou vain man, that faith without deeds is dead?

In his sight

Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight.

Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight.

For by the

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid: but I knew not what sin meant but by the law. For I had not known what lust had meant, except the law had said, "Thou shalt not lust."

But I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

General references

And he said, "Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, of which I bade thee that thou shouldest not eat?"

In these two commandments, hang all the law and the prophets."

Of sin, because they believe not on me:

We suppose, therefore we hold, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

and cometh not of works, lest any man should boast himself.