Romans 3:20

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Job 15:15

God places no trust in his holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in his eyes.

Psalm 130:3

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

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant, because no one alive is right before you.

Romans 2:13

Hearing the law does not make people right with God. It is those who obey the law who will be right with him.

Romans 3:28

A person is made right with God through faith, not through obeying the law.

Romans 4:13

Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. He did not receive that promise through the law, but through being right with God by his faith.

Romans 4:15

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

Romans 5:13

Sin was in the world before the law of Moses, but sin is not counted against us as breaking a command when there is no law.

Romans 5:20

The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God’s grace increased.

Romans 7:11

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

Romans 9:32

because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did instead of trusting in God to make them right. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ. It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law.

Galatians 2:19

It was the law that put me to death, and I died to the law so that I can now live for God.

Galatians 5:4

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

Hebrews 7:19

The law of Moses could not make anything perfect. But now a better hope has been given to us, and with this hope we can come near to God.