Romans 3:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Where then `is' the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ποῦ οὖν ἡ καύχησις; Ἐξεκλείσθη. Διὰ ποίου νόμου; τῶν ἔργων; Οὐχί: ἀλλὰ διὰ νόμου πίστεως.

Transliteration

Pou oun hē kauchēsis? Exekleisthē. Dia poiou nomou? tōn ergōn? Ouchi: alla dia nomou pisteōs.

Grammar Details

• *Pou*: adverb - where
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *hē kauchēsis*: article + noun, nominative, feminine, singular - the boasting
• *Exekleisthē*: verb, aorist passive, 3rd person singular - it was excluded
• *Dia poiou*: preposition + interrogative adjective, genitive, masculine, singular - through what kind of
• *nomou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - law
• *tōn ergōn*: article + noun, genitive, neuter, plural - of works
• *Ouchi*: negative particle - no/not at all
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *dia nomou*: preposition + noun, genitive, masculine, singular - through law
• *pisteōs*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - of faith

Word Meanings

• *kauchēsis*: boasting/glorying/pride
• *Exekleisthē*: was excluded/was shut out/was banned
• *poiou*: what kind of/what sort of/which
• *nomou*: law/principle/rule
• *ergōn*: works/deeds/actions
• *nomou pisteōs*: law of faith/principle of faith/system of faith

Referenced Verses

• Rom 2:23 : 23 thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?
• Rom 4:2 : 2 for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before god;
• 1 Cor 1:29-31 : 29 that no flesh may glory before Him; 30 and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption, 31 that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'
• Rom 2:17 : 17 Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,
• 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son; 12 he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God -- the life he hath not.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;
• 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?
• Gal 2:16 : 16 having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
• Gal 3:22 : 22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
• Ezek 16:62-63 : 62 And I -- I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I `am' Jehovah. 63 So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
• Ezek 36:31-32 : 31 And ye have remembered your ways that `are' evil, And your doings that `are' not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.
• Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day thou art not ashamed because of any of thine actions, Wherewith thou hast transgressed against Me, For then do I turn aside from thy midst The exulting ones of thine excellency, And thou dost add no more to be haughty, In My holy mountain.
• Mark 16:16 : 16 he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.
• Luke 18:9-9 : 9 And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: 10 `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer; 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess. 13 `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner! 14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
• John 3:36 : 36 he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'
• Rom 7:21 : 21 I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,
• Rom 7:23 : 23 and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that `is' in my members.
• Rom 7:25 : 25 I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;
• Rom 9:11 : 11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --
• Rom 9:32 : 32 wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,
• Rom 10:5 : 5 for Moses doth describe the righteousness that `is' of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'
• Rom 11:6 : 6 and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
• Eph 2:8-9 : 8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift, 9 not of works, that no one may boast; 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.