Thematic Bible: Man cannot attain to


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If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you? Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfLegalismSelf Righteousness, And The GospelSin, Universality Of


"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God? If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

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