Romans 3:20

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

In Context

19Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

21But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

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Cross References

Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

Romans 2:13For the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law will be made righteous.

Romans 4:13For the promise to Abraham or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, was not through law, but through a righteousness of faith.

Romans 5:13For until law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Romans 7:7What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

Matthew Henry on Romans 3:20-31

Justification by Faith; Christ a Propitiation. ( a. d. 58.) 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by… Read the whole commentary →

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