Verse 9

it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
• Rom 11:6 : 6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
• 1 Cor 1:29-31 : 29 so that no one can boast in his presence. 30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
• Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
• Rom 3:27-28 : 27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith! 28 For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.
• Rom 4:2 : 2 For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about– but not before God.
• Rom 9:11 : 11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–
• Rom 9:16 : 16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.
• Rom 3:20 : 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.