Romans 3:20

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

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

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

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

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”

Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house.

When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

not of works, that no one would boast.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;