Romans 3:28
For we conclude that a person is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to Law.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
In Context
29Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles?
Cross References
John 3:14And, as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
John 6:40For it is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have immortal life; and I myself will raise him up at the Last day.”
Romans 3:20For no human being will be pronounced righteous before God as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.
Romans 4:5while, as for the person who does not rely on their obedience, but has faith in him who can pronounce the godless righteous, their faith is regarded by God as righteousness.
Romans 8:3What Law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature,
Galatians 2:16So we placed our faith in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be pronounced righteous, as the result of faith in Christ, and not of obedience to Law; for such obedience will not result in even one soul’s being pronounced righteous.
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 →