Romans 3:27

Boasting Excluded

²⁶ God presented Him to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be righteous and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷ Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith. ²⁸ For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Good Deeds

Law of Faith

With God

Not At All

Jew

No

Romans 2:23

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Romans 4:2

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to brag about—but not before God.

1 Corinthians 1:29-31

so that no one can boast in His presence.

Romans 2:17

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

Ezekiel 16:62-63

I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am Yahweh,

Ezekiel 36:31-32

“Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and detestable practices.

Zephaniah 3:11

On that day you will not be put to shame
because of everything you have done
in rebelling against Me.
For then I will remove
your proud, arrogant people from among you,
and you will never again be haughty
on My holy mountain.

Mark 16:16

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Luke 18:9-14

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:

John 3:36

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

Romans 7:21

So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me.

Romans 7:23

But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

Romans 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.

Romans 8:2

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 9:11

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

Romans 9:32

Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

Romans 11:6

Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?

Galatians 2:16

know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.

Galatians 3:22

But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin’s power, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Ephesians 2:8-10

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

1 John 5:11-12

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.