Romans 3:20

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Romans 3:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

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Romans 3:28

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

Romans 4:13

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Acts 13:39

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

Galatians 2:16

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

Galatians 3:10

All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Galatians 3:11

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Galatians 3:12

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

Galatians 5:4

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

Ephesians 2:8

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:9

not by works, so that no one can boast.

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:6

This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

James 2:9

But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

James 2:10

Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Job 25:4

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalms 130:3

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Psalms 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

James 2:20

O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?

James 2:21

Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

James 2:22

You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.

James 2:23

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

James 2:24

As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.

James 2:25

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?

James 2:26

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

Job 15:15

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Job 25:5

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

Romans 7:7

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.