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Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.
Verse 27. JEW. _WHERE IS BOASTING, THEN?_] 'η καυχησις, _This_ _glorying_ of ours. Have we nothing in which we can _trust_ for our acceptance with God? No _merit_ of our _own_? Nothing accruing to us...
WHERE IS BOASTING THEN? - Where is there ground or occasion of boasting or pride? Since all have sinned, and since all have failed of being able to justify themselves by obeying the Law, and since all...
3. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED. Justification, what it is and what it Includes. Chapter 3:21-5:11. CHAPTER 3:21-31 _ 1. The Righteousness of God Manifested. (Romans 3:21 .)_ 2. Just and Just...
A new chapter opens in human history the achievement of REDEMPTION IN CHRIST JESUS. Romans 3:21. In the desperation to which man's sin, brought home to him by the Law, has reduced him, a manifestation...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
Where, then, is there any ground for boasting? It is completely shut out. Through what kind of law? Through the law of works? No, but through the law of faith. So, then, we reckon that a man enters in...
BOASTING. i.e. of the Jew; Romans 2:17. Greek. _kauchesis,_ which means the act of boasting, while _kauchema_ (Romans 4:2) refers to the subject of the boast. EXCLUDED. Greek. _ekkleio._ Only here and...
_boasting_ Lit. THE BOASTING; i.e. probably "the boasting of the Jew in his pride of privilege." This reference is supported by the next three verses, especially if "for" is read in Romans 3:28 (q.v.)...
ΠΟΥ͂ ΟΥ̓͂Ν Ἡ ΚΑΎΧΗΣΙΣ; Cf. Romans 2:17; Romans 2:22. This whole practice and temper of mind is here set aside, as inconsistent with the truth of man’s common relation to GOD. The class of words is alm...
The failure of Jew and Gentile alike is met by the new dispensation of the Gospel, with the condition it demands of man, faith. The argument having explained ‘the revelation of wrath,’ returns to the...
ΚΑΎΧΗΣΙΣ (G2746) хвастовство, ΈΞΕΚΛΕΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΈΚΚΛΕΊΩ (G1576) выключать, исключать. Богосл. _pass._ указывает, что действующим лицом является Бог (Dunn), ΠΟΙΟΣ (G4169) какой? какого...
DISCOURSE: 1834 JUSTIFICATION WITHOUT BOASTING Romans 3:27. _Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified...
WHERE IS BOASTING THEN?— _Where is glorying then?_ See on chap. Romans 2:17. What is here meant by _glorying,_ may be nearly determined by these two remarks: _First,_ this question must be different f...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:27-31. Where then is the glorifying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith. Romans 3:28 We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart...
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. WHERE IS BOASTING THEN? IT IS EXCLUDED. BY WHAT LAW? - `On what principle?' OF WORKS? NAY; BUT BY THE...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 19 The passages from the Psalms might be turned by the Jews to apply to the nations. But the apostle rightly insists that what is written in the law is binding upon those und...
THE NEW WAY OF ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD In Romans 1:2 St. Paul has shown that both Gentile and Jew have sinned wilfully, and are under God's condemnation. He now digresses to Jewish objections against the...
BOASTING] cp. Romans 2:1; Romans 2:23. THE LAW] RV 'a law,' i.e. system....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 SOME *JEWISH PROTESTS AGAINST PAUL’S THOUGHTS 3:1-8 V1 Someone might ask whether the *Jews received any real advanta...
IT IS EXCLUDED. — Strictly, _It was excluded_ — at the moment when the law of faith — _i.e.,_ the gospel — was brought in. BY WHAT LAW? — Properly, _By what kind of law?_ Is this law which gets rid o...
(27-31) A review of the consequences of this process of justification. How does it affect the pretensions of the Jew? It shuts them out by laying stress no longer on works, which were the proper fulfi...
CHAPTER 9 THE ONE WAY OF DIVINE ACCEPTANCE Romans 3:21 So then "there is silence" upon earth, that man may hear the "still, small voice," "the sound of stillness," 1 Kings 19:12 from the heavens. "T...
ποῦ οὖν, where, since this is the case, is boasting? ἐξεκλείσθη : for the use of the tense, _cf._ ἐβλήθη and ἐξηράνθη in John 15:6; it is equivalent to, “is peremptorily, or once for all, shut out”. δ...
In these verses the positive exposition of the righteousness of God as offered to faith through the redemption in Christ Jesus, is concluded. The Apostle points out two inferences which can be drawn f...
ALL FREELY JUSTIFIED BY GRACE Romans 3:21 From the universal need the Apostle turns to the all-sufficient remedy. The Law and the Prophets hinted dimly at justification by faith, but did not unveil i...
Paul here turned to a brief discussion of certain objections. First, "What advantage, then, hath the Jew?" He replied, "Much, every way." He then mentioned only one, which he spoke of as being "first...
(11) Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what (e) law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (11) An argument to prove this conclusion, that we are justified by faith without works, taken f...
“ _Where is the boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by that of faith. For we judge that man is justified by faith without works of law._ ” Οὖν, _then:_ in consequence of the...
NINTH PASSAGE (3:27-31). THE HARMONY OF THIS MODE OF JUSTIFICATION WITH THE TRUE MEANING OF THE LAW. The apostle had asserted, Romans 3:21, that _the law_ and _the prophets_ themselves bear witness to...
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (28) Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. (29) Is he the Go...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
27._Where then is glorying? _The Apostle, after having, with reasons abundantly strong, cast down men from their confidence in works, now triumphs over their folly: and this exulting conclusion was ne...
Having established the great truth that God required real moral goodness, he considers the position of the Jews. Could they not plead special divine favour? Was there no advantage in Judaism? Surely t...
WHERE IS BOASTING THEN?.... There is no room nor reason for it, either in Jews or Gentiles: not in the Jews, who were very apt to boast of their being Abraham's seed; of their circumcision; of their b...
Where _is_ boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Ver. 27. _Where is boasting then, &c._] A certain sophister would hence prove the authority of the Churc...
_Where is boasting then?_ The boasting of the Gentiles in their philosophy, or of the Jews in the rites of the law of Moses, as sufficient for their salvation. Or the boasting of the Jews against the...
WHERE IS BOASTING; in this way of saving sinners, what ground is there for them to be vain of their own merit or worthiness? None at all. IT IS EXCLUDED; it is not for their sakes, but for Christ's s...
WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE JEW? Since God requires subjection _of heart_ from the Jew, and at the same time honors a like subjection of heart in the Gentiles, the question arises, "What advantage then hat...
ROMANS 3:21-31 1. How can one be justified by faith? a. Justification by faith as related to the law i. Was justification tied to the law? 1. Apart from the law 21 2. Apart from works of the law...
WHERE THEN IS THE GLORYING? IT IS EXCLUDED. BY WHAT MANNER OF LAW? OF WORKS? NAY: BUT BY. LAW OF FAITH. 'Glorying' -'boasting' (NASV); 'then what becomes of our boasting' (Mof). Why were sins left u...
27-31 God will have the great work of the justification and salvation of sinners carried on from first to last, so as to shut out boasting. Now, if we were saved by our own works, boasting would not...
WHERE IS BOASTING THEN? the apostle doth, as it were, insult over them: q.d. Where is now the former boasting cf the Jews, as if they were so much better than the Gentiles? Or what is become of the gr...
Where then is the glorying? [Romans 2:17; Romans 2:23] _It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith_. [In all that portion of this Epistle embraced between 2:17-3:20, P...
Romans 3:27 Where G4226 boasting G2746 then G3767 excluded G1576 (G5681) By G1223 what G4169 law G3551 works...
‘Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.' What then of the Jews glorying/boasting in their special status? Or Gentiles glorying in their...
1. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS TO ALL, JEW AND GENTILE, BY FAITH. The section opens (Romans 3:21) with the statement of the theme of this division, as contrasted with Romans 3:20; Romans 3:22-26 set for...
Romans 3:27. WHERE IS THE BOASTING (or ‘glorying') THEN? We have here an inference (‘then') vivaciously set forth in question and answer. In view of this manifestation of God's righteousness apart fro...
2. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS BY FAITH. The theme of this second main division of the doctrinal part of the Epistle may be found in Romans 3:21: (1.) The righteousness of God apart from the law has bee...
IT IS EXCLUDED (εξεκλεισθη). First aorist (effective) passive indicative. "It is completely shut out." Glorying is on man's part.NAY; BUT BY A LAW OF FAITH (ουχι, αλλα δια νομου πιστεως). Strong...
Romans 3:19. _Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by t...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?_ If, after all, both Jew and Gentiles were under sin, what advantage had the Jew by the covenant under which he...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way; chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ If it be so that, after all...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ The Jews of old had a great...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ It was a great thing to be...
Romans 3:9. _What then? are we better than they?_ The first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans contains so horrible an account of the manners of the Gentiles, the heathen of Paul's day, that it is...
Romans 3:9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: T...
CONTENTS: The common guilt of both Jew and Gentile. Justification by faith, not by the law. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The sum of all sin is coming short of the glory of God for which we we...
The first part of this chapter, as far as the twentieth verse, belongs to the two preseding Chapter s, and confirms, by the words of David, the deplorable state of fallen man. Romans 3:1. _What advant...
WHAT, THEN, CAN WE BOAST ABOUT? Every law which requires HUMAN MERIT as a condition of salvation permits boasting and pride. The salvation which comes as a free gift through the merit of Christ's sacr...
_Where is boasting then?_ It is excluded. BOASTFULNESS--JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN I. Boastfulness was a Jewish national characteristic of a peculiar species, for it took the form of religious conceit. 1...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:27 The word LAW in this verse probably means principle, though some think it refers to the OT law. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:27.—Where is then the glorying? Such is the most literal and most correct rendering of the clause. Almost tantamount to the expression, Where is then their glorying? Romans...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 3:1 (2) _Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met. _In_ _this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle meets certain objections that might be ma...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Romans 3. Paul has just told the Jews that having the law does not justify a person. It is the keeping of the law that justifies one. That uncircumcision really has...
1 Corinthians 1:29; 1 Corinthians 4:7; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:12;...
LAW AND GRACE Romans 3:19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The meaning and scope of the Law. Law is a word filled with glory, but wholly foreign to Grace. Law is the measure of the holy requirements of a righ...
Where is the boasting then of the Jew against the gentile? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay — This would have left room for boasting. But by the law of faith — Since this requires all, witho...
The apostle having laid down in the foregoing verses, the nature of justification exactly in the several and respective causes of it, declares in this verse, what is the consequence of this doctrine,...