Romans 3:20
Because by works of the Law no flesh shall be accepted as righteous: for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.
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Job 25:4How then can man be righteous before? Or how can he be pure that is born of woman?
Psalms 143:2Enter not into judgment with thy servant; For before thee no man living is righteous.
Romans 2:13for it is not the hearers of a law who are righteous before God, but the doers of a law will be accounted righteous;—
Romans 4:13For not through the Law was the promise made to Abraham or his offspring that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 5:13(for all the time before the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not set to one's account when there is no law.
Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, “Thou shalt 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 →