Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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:
Themes
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 3:27
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Boasting Excluded
27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is shut out. On what principle? What a man does? No, but whether a man has faith. 28 For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it.
Cross References
Romans 2:23
Will you boast of the Law and yet dishonor God by breaking it?
Romans 4:2
For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God,
1 Corinthians 1:29-31
so that in his presence no human being might have anything to boast of.
Romans 2:17
Suppose you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,
Mark 16:16
He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.
Luke 18:9-14
To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration:
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.
Romans 7:21
I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong.
Romans 7:23
but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.
Romans 7:25
Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.
Romans 8:2
For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.
Romans 9:11
For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,
Romans 9:32
And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,
Romans 10:5
Moses said that anyone who carried out the uprightness the Law prescribed would find life through it.
Romans 11:6
But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?
Galatians 2:16
but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.
Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture describes all mankind as the prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing might on the ground of faith in Jesus Christ be given to those who have faith.
Ephesians 2:8-10
For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God.
1 John 5:11-12
And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son.