Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Justification before God » Under the law » Requires perfect obedience
For it is not those who merely hear the Law [as it is read aloud] who are just or righteous before God, but it is those who [actually] obey the Law who will be justified [pronounced free of the guilt of sin and declared acceptable to Him].
So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the Lord.
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it.
For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.