Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Verse Concepts
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Verse Concepts
Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it. Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;