Romans 3:20

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Our involvement with God’s revelation doesn’t put us right with God. What it does is force us to face our complicity in everyone else’s sin.

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

For by the works of the law no person will be declared righteous before him, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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