Bible Verses About Justification Before God: Under Law: Man Cannot Attain To

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

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.

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;