Romans 3:23
since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God;
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
In Context
24but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.
Cross References
Romans 1:28And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Romans 11:32For God has locked up all in the prison of disobedience, that upon all he may have mercy.
1 Thessalonians 2:12exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.
Hebrews 4:1Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.
1 Peter 5:1Now to you who are presbyters I make this appeal; for I am myself a presbyter, and was a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed.
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 →