For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. Mere possession or hearing (akouō) of the law affords no justification before God. Only the doers (poieō) of the law are declared righteous (dikaiōthēsontai). This statement of the law's own principle—that obedience is what matters—will be the springboard for Paul's argument about humanity's inability to achieve such obedience and thus the necessity of faith.

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