Romans 3:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:20 Cross References

Job 15:15

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Psalm 130:3

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgement with thy servant; For in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Acts 13:39

and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Romans 2:13

for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified:

Romans 3:28

We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Romans 4:13

For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4:15

for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 5:13

for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Romans 5:20

And the law came in beside, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

Romans 7:11

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

Romans 9:32

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

Galatians 2:16

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, save through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Galatians 2:19

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

Galatians 5:4

Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.