Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
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For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
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Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousnessdid not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,