Romans 3:20

New International Version

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our 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, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.

Acts 13:39

Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.

Romans 2:13

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

Romans 3:28

For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Romans 4:13

It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 4:15

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.

Romans 5:13

To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.

Romans 5:20

The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were 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

know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in 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 might live for God.

Galatians 5:4

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.