Romans 3:28
We conclude that people are made right with God through their trust in him, and not from legal observance.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
In Context
29Is God only the God of the Jews? Isn't he the God of other people as well? Of course he is!
Cross References
John 3:14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of man must be lifted up,
John 6:40What my Father wants is for everyone who sees the Son and trusts in him to have eternal life, and for me to raise them up at the last day.”
Romans 3:20For no one is made right before God by doing what the law requires. The law only helps us recognize what sin really is.
Romans 4:5But God, who makes sinners right, considers them as right not because they've worked for it but because they trust in him. This is why
Romans 8:3What the law couldn't do because it was powerless due to our sinful nature, God was able to do! By sending his own Son in human form, God dealt with the whole problem of sin and destroyed sin's power in our sinful human nature.
Galatians 2:16but we know that nobody is made right by doing what the law demands—it is only through trusting in Jesus Christ. We have trusted in Christ Jesus so that we could be made right by placing our confidence in Christ, and not through doing what the law says—because nobody is made right by observing the requirements of the law.”
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 →