Romans 3:20

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Cross References

Galatians 2:16

But we know that no one is made right with God by following the law. 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 him because we trusted in Christ—not because we followed the law. I can say this because no one can be made right with God by following the law.

Romans 3:28

I mean we are made right with God through faith, not through what we have done to follow the law. This is what we believe.

Galatians 2:19

It was the law itself that caused me to end my life under the law. I died to the law so that I could live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.

Romans 4:15

because the law can only bring God’s anger on those who disobey it. But if there is no law, then there is nothing to disobey.

Romans 9:32

They failed 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.

Romans 5:20

The law was brought in so that more people would sin the way Adam did. But where sin increased, there was even more of God’s grace.

Romans 4:13

Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. But Abraham did not receive that promise because he followed the law. He received that promise because he was right with God through his faith.

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant. No one alive could be judged innocent by your standards.

Galatians 5:4

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

Romans 5:13

Sin was in the world before the Law of Moses. But God does not consider people guilty of sin if there is no law.

Psalm 130:3

Lord, if you punished people for all their sins, no one would be left alive.

Romans 2:13

Hearing the law does not make people right with God. They will be right before him only if they always do what the law says.

Job 15:15

God does not even trust his angels. He does not even think the sky is pure.

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

Hebrews 7:19

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