Romans 3:20 Cross References

Romans 3:20

20: For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Galatians 2:16

  1. And yet we Jewish Christians know that we become right with God, not by doing what the law commands, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted by God because of our faith in Christ--and not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be saved by obeying the law."

Romans 3:28

  1. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.

Acts 13:39

  1. Everyone who believes in him is freed from all guilt and declared right with God--something the Jewish law could never do.

Romans 4:15

  1. But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

Galatians 2:19

  1. For when I tried to keep the law, I realized I could never earn God's approval. So I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ.

Romans 9:32

  1. Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law and being good instead of by depending on faith. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.

Romans 5:20

  1. God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God's wonderful kindness became more abundant.

Romans 4:13

  1. It is clear, then, that God's promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was not based on obedience to God's law, but on the new relationship with God that comes by faith.

Galatians 5:4

  1. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace.

Ephesians 2:8

  1. God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
  2. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.

Romans 7:7

  1. Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is evil? Of course not! The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
  2. But sin took advantage of this law and aroused all kinds of forbidden desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
  3. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.

Titus 3:5

  1. He saved us, not because of the good things we did, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins and gave us a new life through the Holy Spirit.
  2. He generously poured out the Spirit upon us because of what Jesus Christ our Savior did.
  3. He declared us not guilty because of his great kindness. And now we know that we will inherit eternal life.

Psalms 143:2

  1. Don't bring your servant to trial! Compared to you, no one is perfect.

Galatians 3:10

  1. But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."
  2. Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."
  3. How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands."
  4. But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."

Romans 5:13

  1. Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. And though there was no law to break, since it had not yet been given,

James 2:20

  1. Fool! When will you ever learn that faith that does not result in good deeds is useless?
  2. Don't you remember that our ancestor Abraham was declared right with God because of what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
  3. You see, he was trusting God so much that he was willing to do whatever God told him to do. His faith was made complete by what he did--by his actions.
  4. And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: "Abraham believed God, so God declared him to be righteous." He was even called "the friend of God."
  5. So you see, we are made right with God by what we do, not by faith alone.

Romans 2:13

  1. For it is not merely knowing the law that brings God's approval. Those who obey the law will be declared right in God's sight.

Psalms 130:3

  1. LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?

James 2:9

  1. But if you pay special attention to the rich, you are committing a sin, for you are guilty of breaking that law.
  2. And the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as the person who has broken all of God's laws.

Job 15:15

  1. Why, God doesn't even trust the angels! Even the heavens cannot be absolutely pure in his sight.

Job 25:4

  1. How can a mere mortal stand before God and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth is pure?
  2. God is so glorious that even the moon and stars scarcely shine compared to him.
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