Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Cross References (21)

  • Galatians 2:16 (31)

    know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ

  • Acts 13:39 (23)

    Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses

  • Romans 3:28 (21)

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

  • Galatians 2:19 (18)

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

  • Romans 4:15 (17)

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

  • Romans 5:20 (12)

    The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

  • Romans 9:32 (12)

    Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

  • Romans 4:13 (12)

    For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but throu

  • Galatians 3:10–13 (10)

    All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do e

  • Psalms 143:2 (9)

    Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

  • Romans 7:7–9 (9)

    What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law.

  • Ephesians 2:8–9 (8)

    For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  • Galatians 5:4 (7)

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

  • Job 25:4–5 (6)

    How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

  • Titus 3:5–7 (6)

    He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and re

  • Psalms 130:3 (6)

    If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

  • James 2:9–10 (5)

    But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

  • James 2:20–26 (5)

    O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?

  • Romans 5:13 (5)

    For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

  • Romans 2:13 (4)

    For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared r

  • Job 15:15 (3)

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