Romans 3:27
So then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith.
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In The King James Version
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
In Context
28For we judge a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:62And I will raise up my covenant with you. And you shall know that I am the Lord.
Zephaniah 3:11In that day, you will not be ashamed over all of your inventions, by which you have transgressed against me. For then I will take away from your midst your arrogant boasters, and you will no longer be exalted on my holy mountain.
Luke 18:9Now about certain persons who consider themselves to be just, while disdaining others, he told also this parable:
Romans 2:17But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God,
Romans 3:19But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.
Romans 7:21And so, I discover the law, by wanting to do good within myself, though evil lies close beside me.
Matthew Henry on Romans 3:20-31
Justification by Faith; Christ a Propitiation. ( a. d. 58.) 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 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. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by… Read the whole commentary →