Romans 3:20

Easy To Read Version

Why? Because no person can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Cross References

Job 15:15

God doesn’t even trust his angels. {\cf2\super [26]} \par Compared to God\par even the heavens are not pure.\par

Psalm 130:3

Lord, if you really punished people\par for all of their sins,\par no person would be left alive.\par

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant.\par Never, in all my life, could I ever be judged innocent.\par

Romans 2:13

Hearing the law does not make people right with God. The law makes people right with God only if those people always obey everything the law says.

Romans 3:28

A person is not a true Jew if he is only a Jew in his physical body. True circumcision {\cf2\super [23]} is not only on the outside of the body.

Romans 4:13

Abraham {\cf2\super [39]} and his descendants {\cf2\super [40]} received the promise that they would get the whole world. But Abraham did not receive that promise because he followed the law. {\cf2\super [41]} Abraham received that promise because he was right with God through his faith.

Romans 4:15

Why? Because the law can only bring God’s anger \{when the law is not obeyed\}. But if there is no law, then there is nothing to disobey.

Romans 5:13

Sin was in the world before the law \{of Moses\}. But God does not make people guilty for sin if there is no law.

Romans 5:20

The law came to make people have more sin. But when people had more sin, God gave them more of his grace (kindness).

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command. Sin used the command to make me die \{spiritually\}.

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did. They did not trust in God to make them right. They fell over the stone that makes people fall.

1 Corinthians 15:56

Death’s power to hurt is sin. And the power of sin is the law.

Galatians 2:16

We know that a person is not made right with God by following the law. {\cf2\super [18]} No! It is trusting in Jesus Christ that makes a person right with God. So we have put our faith in Christ Jesus, because we wanted to be made right with God. And we are right with God because we trusted in Christ—not because we followed the law. \{This is true\} because no person can be made right with God by following the law.

Galatians 2:19

I stopped living for the law. It was the law that killed me. I died to the law so that I can now live for God. I (my old life) was killed on the cross with Christ.

Galatians 5:4

If you try to be made right with God through the law, then your life with Christ is finished—you have left God’s grace (kindness).

Hebrews 7:19

The law \{of Moses\} could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been given to us. And with that hope we can come near to God.