Romans 3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

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New International Version
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

English Standard Version
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

New American Standard Bible
Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

King James Bible
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

International Standard Version
What, then, is there to boast about? That has been eliminated. On what principle? On that of actions? No, but on the principle of faith.

American Standard Version
Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Darby Bible Translation
Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

Young's Literal Translation
Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:

Cross References

Romans 2:17
Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

Romans 2:23
You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonor you God?

Romans 3:26
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.

Romans 4:2
For if Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory; but not before God.

Romans 9:31
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 1:29
That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:27-31 God will have the great work of the justification and salvation of sinners carried on from first to last, so as to shut out boasting. Now, if we were saved by our own works, boasting would not be excluded. But the way of justification by faith for ever shuts out boasting. Yet believers are not left to be lawless; faith is a law, it is a working grace, wherever it is in truth. By faith, not in this matter an act of obedience, or a good work, but forming the relation between Christ and the sinner, which renders it proper that the believer should be pardoned and justified for the sake of the Saviour, and that the unbeliever who is not thus united or related to him, should remain under condemnation. The law is still of use to convince us of what is past, and to direct us for the future. Though we cannot be saved by it as a covenant, yet we own and submit to it, as a rule in the hand of the Mediator.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Ro 3:27-31. Inferences from the Foregoing Doctrines and an Objection Answered.

Inference first: Boasting is excluded by this, and no other way of justification.

27, 28. Where is boasting then? … excluded. By what law?—on what principle or scheme?.

of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.