Romans 3:19-26 Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God. ²⁰ For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin. ²¹ But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it. ²² It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction. ²³ For all men sin and come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus. ²⁵ For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)— ²⁶ to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.