Romans 3:27

New International Reader's Version

So who can brag? No one! Are people saved by the law that requires them to obey? Not at all! They are saved because of the law that requires faith.

Cross References

Zephaniah 3:11

Jerusalem, you have done many wrong things to me. But at that time you will not be put to shame anymore. That’s because I will remove from this city those who think so highly of themselves. You will never be proud again on my holy mountain of Zion.

Mark 16:16

Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who does not believe will be punished.

John 3:36

Anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life. Anyone who does not believe in the Son will not have life. God’s anger remains on them.”

Romans 10:5

Moses writes about how the law could help a person do what God requires. He writes, “The person who does these things will live by them.” (Leviticus 18:5)

Romans 11:6

And if they are chosen by grace, then they can’t work for it. If that were true, grace wouldn’t be grace anymore.

Romans 2:17

Suppose you call yourself a Jew. You trust in the law. You brag that you know God.

Romans 2:23

You brag about the law. But when you break it, you rob God of his honor!

Romans 3:19

What the law says, it says to those who are ruled by the law. Its purpose is to shut every mouth and make the whole world accountable to God.

Romans 3:26

God did all this to prove in our own time that he does what is right. He also makes right with himself those who believe in Jesus.

Romans 4:2

Did he become right with God because of something he did? If so, he could brag about it. But he couldn’t brag to God.

Romans 7:21

Here is the law I find working in me. When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law working in me. It fights against the law of my mind. It makes me a prisoner of the law of sin. That law controls me.

Romans 7:25

I give thanks to God who saves me. He saves me through Jesus Christ our Lord. So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law. But sin controls my desires. So I am a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 8:2

Because of what Christ Jesus has done, you are free. You are now controlled by the law of the Holy Spirit who gives you life. The law of the Spirit frees you from the law of sin that brings death.

Romans 9:11

Here is what happened. Rebekah’s twins had not even been born. They hadn’t done anything good or bad yet. So they show that God’s purpose is based firmly on his free choice.

Romans 9:31

The people of Israel tried to obey the law to make themselves right with God. But they didn’t reach their goal of being right with God.

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they tried to do it without faith. They tried to be right with God by what they did. They tripped over the stone that causes people to trip and fall.

1 Corinthians 4:7

Who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you brag as though you did not?

Galatians 2:16

Here is what we know. No one is made right with God by obeying the law. It is by believing in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus. This is so we can be made right with God by believing in Christ. We are not made right by obeying the law. That’s because no one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

Galatians 3:22

But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin. It does so in order that what was promised might be given to those who believe. The promise comes through faith in Jesus Christ.