Romans 3:27

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Romans 3:27

What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith.

Romans 2:23

Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

Romans 4:2

If he was pronounced righteous as the result of obedience, then he has something to boast of. Yes, but not before God.

1 Corinthians 1:29-31

So that in his presence no human being should boast.

Romans 2:17

But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,

Mark 16:16

He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned.

Luke 18:9-14

Another time, speaking to people who were satisfied that they were religious, and who regarded every one else with scorn, Jesus told this parable--

John 3:36

He who believes in the Son has Immortal Life, while he who rejects the Son will not even see that Life, but remains under 'God's displeasure.'

Romans 3:19

Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and the whole world become liable to the judgment of God.

Romans 7:21

This, then, is the law that I find-When I want to do right, wrong presents itself!

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

Romans 7:25

Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of Sin.

Romans 8:2

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

Romans 9:11

For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,

Romans 9:32

And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from Law, 'those who practice it will find Life through it.'

Romans 11:6

But if in love, then no longer as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?

Galatians 2:16

So we placed our faith in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be pronounced righteous, as the result of faith in Christ, and not of obedience to Law; for such obedience 'will not result in even one soul's being pronounced righteous.'

Galatians 3:22

But the words of Scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, upon faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.

Ephesians 2:8-10

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

1 John 5:11-12

And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son.

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Summary

Romans 3:27

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

Where

Ephesians 2:8

Of works

But by

General references

1 Corinthians 1:29

Ephesians 2:9

Bible References

Where

Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and the whole world become liable to the judgment of God.

But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,

If he was pronounced righteous as the result of obedience, then he has something to boast of. Yes, but not before God.

Another time, speaking to people who were satisfied that they were religious, and who regarded every one else with scorn, Jesus told this parable--

So that in his presence no human being should boast.

For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

Of works

For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from Law, 'those who practice it will find Life through it.'

But if in love, then no longer as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.

But by

This, then, is the law that I find-When I want to do right, wrong presents itself!

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned.

He who believes in the Son has Immortal Life, while he who rejects the Son will not even see that Life, but remains under 'God's displeasure.'

And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son.

General references

So that in his presence no human being should boast.

It is not due to obedience to Law, lest any one should boast.