Romans 3:20

New English Translation

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Cross References

Job 15:15

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

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Psalm 143:2

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Acts 13:39

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

Romans 2:13

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

Romans 3:28

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

Romans 4:13

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

Romans 5:13

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

Romans 5:20

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

Galatians 5:4

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

Hebrews 7:19

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.