No One Is Righteous
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. Rom 3:20
by the deeds... Even if the Jews had not broken the law, they could not be justified. The law could only condemn, not justify (Rom. 3:21-31; 7:7-25).
No one can argue in his own defense that he is not under sin. The Law points up God’s standards and illustrates people’s inability to live up to them.
Finally, the Law is not a way for a person to be declared righteous (justified) in His sight (cf. Rom. 3:28). That was not its purpose (Acts 13:39; Gal. 2:16; 3:11). Instead, the Law was given so that through it we become conscious (lit., “through the Law is full knowledge”) of sin (cf. Rom. 5:20; 7:7-13). The Mosaic Law is an instrument not of justification but of condemnation.
The law just made it even more apparent that all have sinned and needed a Savior. We will read (in chapter 5 of Romans), that Jesus died for the ungodly. We cannot be good enough to be saved. Jesus Christ is the only person that ever lived without sin.
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