Romans 3:21
Good News Translation
But now God's way of putting people right with himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do with law, even though the Law of Moses and the prophets gave their witness to it.

New Revised Standard Version
But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets,

Contemporary English Version
Now we see how God does make us acceptable to him. The Law and the Prophets tell how we become acceptable, and it isn't by obeying the Law of Moses.

New American Bible
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

righteousness.

Romans 1:17 For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

Romans 5:19,21 For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just. . . .

Romans 10:3,4 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God. . . .

Genesis 15:6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

Isaiah 45:24,25 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear. . . .

Isaiah 46:13 I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.

Isaiah 51:8 For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.

Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

Jeremiah 33:16 In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our just one.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.

Acts 15:11 But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, in like manner as they also.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Galatians 5:5 For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.

Philippians 3:9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.

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2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

being.

Deuteronomy 18:15-19 The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear: . . .

Luke 24:44 And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.

John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.

John 3:14,15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up: . . .

John 5:46,47 For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: for he wrote of me. . . .

Acts 26:22 But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass:

Hebrews 10:1-14 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect. . . .

and the.

Romans 1:2 Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures,

Romans 16:26 (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

Acts 3:21-25 Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning of the world. . . .

Acts 10:43 To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him.

Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.

Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.

1 Peter 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.

Context
Righteousness through Faith
20Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. 22Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction.…
Cross References
Isaiah 46:13
I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.

Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.

Acts 10:43
To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him.

Romans 1:2
Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures,

Romans 1:17
For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

Romans 3:28
For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

Romans 9:30
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.

2 Corinthians 5:21
Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:20
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