Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.

The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

“And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”

And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation;