Question 3

Section 1: Introduction

1. a. Romans 3:20; Romans 7:5,13; Romans 5:20

   Romans 3:20

   ^3:20 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.

   ^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 7:5; Romans 7:13

   ^7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. ^7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

   ^7:5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. ^7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

   Romans 5:20

   ^5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

   ^5:20 The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

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