Romans 3:27
Where is the boasting? It is excluded. Is it by law? Is it by works? No, it is by a principle of faith.
Romans 2:23
You who boast in the law do you by transgression of the law dishonor God?
Romans 4:2
If Abraham was declared righteous by works, he could boast, but not to God.
1 Corinthians 1:29-31
No human being should boast before God.
Romans 2:17
If you are a Jew in name and are resting on the law and taking glory in God,
Ezekiel 16:62-63
I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 36:31-32
Then you will remember your evil ways and the bad things that you did. You will hate yourselves for all these wicked and disgusting things.
Zephaniah 3:11
At that time you will no longer be ashamed of your transgression against me. I will remove everyone who is proud and arrogant. You will never again be haughty on my holy mountain.
Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved. He who does not believe will be condemned.
Luke 18:9-14
He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:
John 3:36
He who puts active faith in the Son has everlasting life. He who disobeys* the Son will not see life for the wrath of God remains upon him. (*Greek: apeitheo: willfully disobey, not having faith)
Romans 3:19
We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.
Romans 7:21
I find that this law is at work. When I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.
Romans 7:23
However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.
Romans 7:25
Thanks to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ! So then I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
Romans 8:2
The law of the Spirit gives us life through (with) (because of) Christ Jesus. It has set me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 9:11
When they had not yet been born nor performed anything good or vile, so the purpose of God regarding the choosing would continue without dependence on works but on the One who calls.
Romans 9:32
Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.
Romans 10:5
Moses writes down the righteousness that is of the law. The man who has practiced those things shall live by them.
Romans 11:6
If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?
Galatians 2:16
Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.
Galatians 3:22
But the Scriptures shut up (imprisoned) (pictured) all things (mankind) under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Ephesians 2:8-10
By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God!
1 John 5:11-12
The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son.