Romans 3:20
New Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
צָדַק
tsâdaq
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
חַטָּאָה
chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
Key Terms in This Verse
מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Study H4639 →צָדַק tsâdaq
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
Study H6663 →עַיִן ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Study H5869 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →חַטָּאָה chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
Study H2403 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →Cross References
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 ...
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.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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