Romans 3:27 - Easy To Read Version So do we have a reason to boast about ourselves? No! And why not? It is the way of faith that stops all boasting, not the way of following the law. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then what becomes of [our] pride and [our] boasting? It is excluded (banished, ruled out entirely). On what principle? [On the principle] of doing good deeds? No, but on the principle of faith. American Standard Version (1901) Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith. Common English Bible What happens to our bragging? It’s thrown out. With which law? With what we have accomplished under the Law? Catholic Public Domain Version So then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. |
“Then, Jerusalem, you will no longer be ashamed of the bad things your people do against me. Why? Because I will remove all of those bad people from Jerusalem. I will take away all of those proud people. There won’t be any of those proud people on my holy mountain. {\cf2\super [21]}
Any person that believes and is baptized {\cf2\super [241]} will be saved. But the person that does not believe will be judged guilty.
The person that believes in the Son has life forever. But the person that does not obey the Son will never have that life. God’s anger stays with that person.”
Moses writes about being made right by following the law. Moses says, “A person that wants to find life by following these things (the law) must do the things the law says.” {\cf2\super [99]}
And if God chose his people by grace, then it is not the things they have done that made them God’s people. If they could be made God’s people by the things they did, then God’s gift of grace would not really be a gift.
What about you? You say you are a Jew. You trust in the law and boast that you are close to God.
You boast about God’s law. But you bring shame to God by breaking his law.
These things the law {\cf2\super [28]} says are for the people that are under the law. This stops all \{Jewish\} people from making excuses and brings the whole world (Jews and non-Jews) under God’s judgment.
And God gave Jesus to show today that God does what is right. God did this so that he could judge rightly and also make right any person that has faith in Jesus.
If Abraham was made right by the things he did, then he had a reason to boast. But Abraham could not boast before God.
So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me.
But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner.
God \{will save me\}! I thank him \{for his salvation\} through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Why? Because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit {\cf2\super [58]} that brings life made you {\cf2\super [59]} free. It made you {\cf2\super [60]} free from the law that brings sin and death.
And the people of Israel {\cf2\super [96]} tried to follow a law to make themselves right with God. But they did not succeed.
Why not? Because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did. They did not trust in God to make them right. They fell over the stone that makes people fall.
Who says that you are better than other people? Everything you have was given to you. So, if everything you have was given to you, then why do you boast like you got those things by your own power?
We know that a person is not made right with God by following the law. {\cf2\super [18]} No! It is trusting in Jesus Christ that makes a person right with God. So we have put our faith in Christ Jesus, because we wanted to be made right with God. And we are right with God because we trusted in Christ—not because we followed the law. \{This is true\} because no person can be made right with God by following the law.
But this is not true, because the Scriptures {\cf2\super [42]} showed that all people are bound by sin. Why did the Scriptures do this? So that the promise would be given to people through faith. The promise is given to people who believe in Jesus Christ.