Romans 3:20
This is because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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Job 25:4How then can man be righteous with God? 1 How can he who is born of a woman be clean, acceptable to him? 1
Psalms 143:2Do not enter into judgment with your servant, 1 for in your sight no one is righteous. 1
Romans 2:13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be justified.
Romans 4:13For the promise to Abraham and to his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 5:13For until the law, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.
Romans 7:7What will we say then? Is the law itself sin? May it never be. However, I would never have known sin, if it were not through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law said, “You must 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 →