Romans 3:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

¹⁵ »If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

⁴ »How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure? ⁵ »If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

³ If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?

² Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

³⁹ »Through him all who believe are justified from all things. You could not be justified through the Law of Moses.

¹³ The hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be righteous.

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! I had not known sin except through the law. For I had not known coveting except the law had said: You should not covet. ⁸ But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead. ⁹ I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

³² Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

²⁸ We reason therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

¹³ The promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law but through righteousness by faith.

¹⁵ The law produces wrath (violent passion) (indignation). But where there is no law there is no sin.

¹³ Until the law sin was in the world. Sin is not imputed (put on account) when there is no law.

²⁰ The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God’s loving kindness increased even more.

¹⁶ Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.

¹⁹ I, through the law, died to the law that I might live to (for) God.

¹⁰ Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, »Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.« ¹¹ The fact that the Law justifies no man before God is evident. The righteous will live by faith. ¹² The Law is not based on faith. »He that does them will live by them.« ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; »Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.«

⁴ You who seek to be righteous by Law are separated from Christ. You have fallen away from grace.

⁸ By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God! ⁹ It is not the result of works. So no man should boast.

⁵ not by works done in righteousness, which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration (restoration) (spiritual rebirth) and renewing (renovation) of the Holy Spirit. ⁶ He poured Spirit out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior. ⁷ Being justified by his grace (loving kindness), we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

⁹ But when you show partiality you commit sin. The law then convicts you as transgressors. ¹⁰ Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

²⁰ Are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless (barren) (lifeless)? ²¹ Was Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith acted with his works, and works made faith perfect (complete). ²³ The scripture was fulfilled which says: »Abraham believed Jehovah and it was reckoned (imputed) (considered) (credited) to him for righteousness.« He was called »Jehovah’s friend« (Genesis 15:6) ( Isaiah 41:8). ²⁴ You see that a man is justified (declared and pronounced righteous) by works, and not by faith alone. ²⁵ Rahab the harlot was justified by her works. When she received the messengers she sent them out another way. ²⁶ Just as the body without the spirit is dead; even so faith without works is dead.