Romans 3:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For no person will be justified (made righteous, acquitted, and judged acceptable) in His sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law. For [the real function of] the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin [not mere perception, but an acquaintance with sin which works toward repentance, faith, and holy character].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

Common English Bible

²⁰ It follows that no human being will be treated as righteous in his presence by doing what the Law says, because the knowledge of sin comes through the Law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.

Romans 3:20 Krydshenvisninger

Job 15:15

Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

Psalm 130:3

If thou, O Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.

Acts 13:39

and by him every one that believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Romans 3:28

For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.

Romans 4:13

The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

Romans 5:13

sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Romans 5:20

Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 7:11

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

Romans 9:32

Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Galatians 2:16

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

Galatians 2:19

For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 5:4

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.