**Can our good outweigh our bad?**
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.\
\-[Romans 3:20-28](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%203%3A20-28&version=ESV) [(Commentary)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&resource=reformation-study-bible&tab=study&search=Romans%203%3A20-28&version=ESV)
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.\
\-[Galatians 2:16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%202%3A16&version=ESV) [(Commentary)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&resource=reformation-study-bible&tab=study&search=Galatians%202%3A16&version=ESV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.\
\-[Ephesians 2:8-10 ](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202%3A8-10&version=ESV)[(Commentary)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&resource=reformation-study-bible&tab=study&search=Ephesians%202%3A8-10&version=ESV)
