<p>3:20&nbsp;<i>Because </i><i>by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin</i>- &ldquo;Because&rdquo; is AV &quot;Therefore&quot;. Because we are convicted sinners facing condemnation, no good works we do in other areas can change the outcome nor displace the sins we have already committed. &lsquo;Just&rsquo; one sin brings death, as evidenced by the sin of Adam and Eve. &ldquo;Guilty before God&rdquo; in 3:19 is reflected by &ldquo;not justified in His sight&rdquo; in 3:20. Because we are already standing dumbstruck and declared guilty before Him, we cannot be now declared right, it can&rsquo;t all be made OK, by doing some other good works according to that same system of law parts of which we broke. If you murder your neighbour and stand in court condemned for it, you can&rsquo;t put it all right by then doing the good deed of mowing your other neighbour&rsquo;s lawn and taking his garbage to the dump. Indeed, trying to obey &ldquo;the law&rdquo; in one aspect isn&rsquo;t going to declare us right when that same system of law condemns us. The only possible way to &lsquo;get right&rsquo; would be to somehow get to the judge through another paradigm than obedience or disobedience to the law. And this is exactly what Paul is building up to. For the Judge of all the earth Himself thought up such a way. Seeing that &ldquo;by the law is the knowledge of sin&rdquo;, or as 1 Cor. 15:56 puts it &ldquo;the strength of sin is the law&rdquo;, a way simply has to be found for our salvation which doesn&rsquo;t depend upon our obedience or disobedience to the law.</p>