Verse 27

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

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 2:23 : 23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
  • Rom 4:2 : 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
  • 1 Cor 1:29-31 : 29 that no flesh should boast before God. 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
  • 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • Ezek 16:62-63 : 62 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezek 36:31-32 : 31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
  • John 3:36 : 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
  • Rom 7:21 : 21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
  • Rom 7:23 : 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
  • Rom 9:32 : 32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
  • Eph 2:8-9 : 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, that no one would boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.