Romans 3:20 Cross References - Moffatt

²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

³⁹ and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted,

²⁸ We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

¹³ The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁵ (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

¹³ Sin was indeed in the world before the Law, but sin is never counted in the absence of law.

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

⁷ What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet. ⁸ The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire — for sin, apart from law, is lifeless. ⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

³² And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble —

¹⁶ but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands — for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it. ¹¹ And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, — ¹² and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them), ¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, ⁹ not the outcome of what you have done — lest anyone should pride himself on that;

⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

⁹ but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression. ¹⁰ For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything.

²⁰ But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead? ²¹ When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did? ²² In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds, ²³ and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness — he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes. ²⁵ So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road? ²⁶ For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.