(A)keeping mercy for thousands, (B)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, (C)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

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maintaining love to thousands,(A) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(B) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(C) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(D)

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17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker?

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“Truly I know it is so,
But how can a (A)man be (B)righteous before God?

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“Indeed, I know that this is true.
    But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)

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(A)How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be (B)pure who is born of a woman?

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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(A)If You, Lord, should [a]mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could (B)stand?

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  1. Psalm 130:3 take note of

If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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20 (A)For there is not a just man on earth who does good
And does not sin.

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20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(A)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(B)

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20 Therefore (A)by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

God’s Righteousness Through Faith

21 But now (B)the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, (C)being witnessed by the Law (D)and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all [a]and on all who believe. For (E)there is no difference; 23 for (F)all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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  1. Romans 3:22 NU omits and on all

20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(A) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(B)

Righteousness Through Faith

21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(C) has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.(D) 22 This righteousness(E) is given through faith(F) in[a] Jesus Christ(G) to all who believe.(H) There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,(I) 23 for all have sinned(J) and fall short of the glory of God,

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  1. Romans 3:22 Or through the faithfulness of

16 (A)knowing that a man is not [a]justified by the works of the law but (B)by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not (C)by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

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  1. Galatians 2:16 declared righteous

16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(C)

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  1. Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of