20Therefore 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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Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-31)From all this Paul infers that it is in vain to look for justification by the works of the law, and that it is to be had only by faith, which is the point he has been all along proving, from Rom. 1:17; and which he lays down (Rom. 3:28) as the summary of his discourse, with a quod erat demonstrandum—which was to be demonstrated. We conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of th…
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