Romans 3:27

Boasting Excluded

²⁶ to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, so that he would be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷ Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. ²⁸ For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Good Deeds

Law of Faith

With God

Not At All

Jew

No

Romans 2:23

You who boast in the law, do you, by disobeying the law, dishonor God?

Romans 4:2

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

1 Corinthians 1:29-31

that no flesh might boast before God.

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God,

Ezekiel 16:62-63

I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD;

Ezekiel 36:31-32

Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Zephaniah 3:11

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

Mark 16:16

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Luke 18:9-14

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever refuses to believe in the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Romans 7:21

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made you free from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 9:11

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

Romans 9:32

Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

Romans 11:6

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Galatians 2:16

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 3:22

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Ephesians 2:8-10

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

1 John 5:11-12

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.