Romans 3:20

First Nations Version

So then, it should be clear to all that no one can be in good standing in the eyes of the Great Spirit by doing what our tribal law says. What is clear is that the law shows us how bad our hearts have become and how broken our lives truly are.

Cross References

Galatians 2:16

But we who follow the Chosen One know that working hard to keep our tribal law does not put us in good standing with Creator. For good standing comes through trusting in what Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One has done. As Tribal Members we have put our trust in him, so that our good standing comes from trusting in the Chosen One and not by working hard to keep our tribal law. For no human being will be put in good standing with Creator by working hard to keep the law.

Romans 3:28

Here is another way to see it. Good standing with the Great Spirit does not come by following our tribal law but by putting all our trust in what Creator has done for us.

Galatians 2:19

It was through our tribal law that I died to our tribal law, so that I could be set free to live for the Great Spirit. When the Chosen One died on the cross, I died with him.

Romans 4:15

The law produces only anger for those who fail to walk in it. Where there is no law, only a promise, then no one would be failing to keep a law.

Romans 9:32

Why did they fail? It was because they were depending on what they could do, by keeping the law, instead of trusting in what the Great Spirit would do for them. They tripped over the great stumbling stone,

Romans 5:20

Our tribal law stepped in to show us how bad our broken ways had become, and this only made our broken ways grow worse. But the worse our broken ways grew, even stronger grew the gift of Creator’s great kindness.

Romans 4:13

The promise to Father of Many Nations (Abraham) that all the nations of the world would belong to him and his descendants did not come to him because he kept our tribal law, but because of the good standing that comes from trusting in the Great Spirit’s promise.

Galatians 5:4

You who trust in the law for good standing have cut yourself off from the Chosen One and walked away from the gift of Creator’s great kindness.

Romans 5:13

These broken ways were already at work in the world, even before our tribal law was given. But where there is no law, no one can be guilty of breaking it.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the ones who hear the law who have good standing with Creator but the ones who do what it says.

Romans 7:11

But it was my broken ways of thinking that tricked me and turned the law’s instructions into a temptation that ended up bringing death to me.

1 Corinthians 15:56

For our broken ways give death its sting, and our broken ways give the law its power. But no more!

Hebrews 7:19

For our tribal law could not bring anyone or anything to full meaning and purpose. But the Chosen One has brought to us an even greater hope, and it is this hope that moves us to draw near to the Great Spirit.