Romans 3:20

Because by the works of the law no flesh is justified before him; for from the law sin is known.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19BUT we know that whatever the law saith, to them who are under the law it saith: that every mouth may be shut, and all the world be guilty unto Aloha.

21But now, without the law the righteousness of Aloha is revealed, and the law and the prophets (themselves) testify of it.

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Cross References

Romans 2:13For not the hearers of the law are righteous before Aloha, but the doers of the law are justified.

Romans 4:13FOR not through the law was the promise unto Abraham and to his seed that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 5:13For until the law, sin, while it was in the world, was not reckoned sin, because the law was not;

Romans 7:7What then, say we the law is sin? Not so. But sin I had not learned (to know) but by the law: for I had not known concupiscence (to be sinful), but (by) the law, which hath 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 →

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