Justification Before God: Under Law: Man Cannot Attain To
Source: TTT
Job 9:2, 3, 20
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? / If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand. / Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Job 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalm 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Psalm 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Romans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Romans 9:31, 32
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. / Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,