Rom 3:20, Gal 3:19 | Family | STEP | By the deeds of the law ; their own works in obedience to law. No flesh ; no individual of the human race. Be justified ; accepted of God or treated as righteous. The knowledge of sin ; when compared with or tried by the law of God, men are shown to be sinners, shut up under righteous condemnation, without the possibility, on the ground of their own works, of ever being saved.

‏ Romans 3:20

By the deeds of the law; their own works in obedience to law.

No flesh; no individual of the human race.

Be justified; accepted of God or treated as righteous.

The knowledge of sin; when compared with or tried by the law of God, men are shown to be sinners, shut up under righteous condemnation, without the possibility, on the ground of their own works, of ever being saved.

‏ Galatians 3:19

Wherefore then serveth the law? why was it added?

Because of transgressions; the Jews were so prone to forsake God, worship idols, and commit all sorts of abominations, that the law was added to restrain them--to preserve among them the knowledge and worship of Jehovah, show them the desert of sin, their need of Christ and the nature of his salvation, and point them to him as the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.

Ordained by angels; given through the ministry of angels.

In the hand of a mediator; namely, Moses. compare Ex 20:19; De 5:5,27.