Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Where then is
King James Version
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Holman Bible
Where then is boasting?
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.
A Conservative Version
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law 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.
Amplified
Then what becomes of [our] boasting? It is excluded [entirely ruled out, banished]. On what principle? On [the principle of good] works? No, but on the principle of faith.
An Understandable Version
Where then is the [basis for] boasting [i.e., over being right with God]? There is not any. Is it by [obedience to] a law? Is it by doing certain deeds? Not at all, but by a law of faith.
Anderson New Testament
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Bible in Basic English
What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Common New Testament
Where then is our boasting? It is excluded. On what law? On the law of works? No, but on the law of faith.
Daniel Mace New Testament
what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded. what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith.
Darby Translation
Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;
Godbey New Testament
Then where is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Goodspeed New Testament
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is shut out. On what principle? What a man does? No, but whether a man has faith.
John Wesley New Testament
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works?
Julia Smith Translation
Where then boasting? It was excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.
King James 2000
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, where [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Modern King James verseion
Then where is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Where is then thy rejoicing? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Moffatt New Testament
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.
Montgomery New Testament
Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.
NET Bible
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!
New Heart English Bible
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Noyes New Testament
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.
Sawyer New Testament
Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
The Emphasized Bible
Where, then, the boasting! It is excluded. Through what kind of law? Of works? Nay! but through a law of faith:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.
Twentieth Century New Testament
What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith.
Webster
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Weymouth New Testament
Where then is there room for your boasting? It is for ever shut out. On what principle? On the ground of merit? No, but on the ground of faith.
Williams New Testament
So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith.
World English Bible
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Worrell New Testament
Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.
Worsley New Testament
Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: but by the law of faith.
Youngs Literal Translation
Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Boasting Excluded
26
It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where then is
Cross References
Romans 2:23
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
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
so that no human being might boast in the presence of 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 will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
Zephaniah 3:11
"On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Luke 18:9-14
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Romans 7:21
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Romans 7:23
but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Romans 7:25
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 9:11
though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad--in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls--
Romans 9:32
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
Romans 11:6
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Galatians 2:16
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so 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 this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.