Romans 3:27
Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
Text-Critical English NT
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
28We conclude therefore that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Cross References
Luke 18:9He also told this parable to some who were confident in their own righteous and regarded others with contempt:
Romans 2:17Behold, yoʋ call yoʋrself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Romans 7:21I find then the law that when I want to do what is right, evil is present with 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 →