Romans 3:28
For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
In Context
27Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
29Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.
Cross References
John 3:14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:
John 6:40And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth in him, may have life everlasting, and I will raise him up in the last day.
Romans 3:20Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:5But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.
Romans 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh; God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh;
Galatians 2:16But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ; we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
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 →