Romans 3:16-24

¹⁶Distress and trouble dog their steps,

¹⁷and the path of peace they do not know.’

¹⁸‘The fear of God is not before their eyes.’

¹⁹Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and to bring the whole world under God's judgment.

²⁰For no human being will be pronounced righteous before God as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

²¹But now, quite apart from Law, the divine righteousness stands revealed, and to it the Law and the prophets bear witness —

²²the divine righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, on all, without distinction, who believe in him.

²³For all have sinned, and all fall short of God's glorious ideal,

²⁴but, in his loving kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.