Romans 3:19-28

Williams(i) 19 Now we know that everything the law says is spoken to those who are under its authority, that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be held responsible to God. 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. 25 For God once publicly offered Him in His death as a sacrifice of reconciliation through faith, to demonstrate His own justice (for in His forbearance God had passed over men's former sins); 26 yes, to demonstrate His justice at the present time, to prove that He is right Himself, and that He considers right with Himself the man who has faith in Jesus. 27 So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith. 28 For we hold that a man is brought into right standing with God by faith, that observance of the law has no connection with it.