Romans 3:20-24 Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin. ²¹ But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify. ²² God's own way of giving men right standing with Himself is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is for everybody who has faith, for no distinction at all is made. ²³ For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory, ²⁴ but anybody may have right standing with God as a free gift of His undeserved favor, through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus.