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? - `On what principle?' OF WORKS? NAY; BUT BY THE LAW (or, on the principle) OF FAITH....

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 necessary; for on this subject, to teach us would not have been enough; it was necessary that the Holy Spirit should loudly thunder, in order to lay prostrate our loftiness. But he says that glorying is beyond all doubt excluded, for we cannot adduce anything of our own, which is worthy of being approved or commended by God. If the material of glorying be merit, whether you name that of congruity or of condignity, by which man would conciliate God, you see that both are here annihilated; for he treats not of the lessening or the modifying of merit, but Paul leaves not a particle behind. Besides, since by faith glorying in works is so taken away, that faith cannot be truly preached, without who...

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 be excluded. But the way of justification by faith for ever shuts out boasting. Yet believers are not left to be lawless; faith is a law, it is a working grace, wherever it is in truth. By faith, not in this matter an act of obedience, or a good work, but forming the relation between Christ and the sinner, which renders it proper that the believer should be pardoned and justified for the sake of the Saviour, and that the unbeliever who is not thus united or related to him, should remain under condemnation. The law is still of use to convince us of what is past, and to direct us for the future. Though we cannot be saved by it as a covenant, yet we own and submit to it, as a rule in the hand of...

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 from our circumcision and being in covenant with God. APOSTLE, _IT IS EXCLUDED_] εξεκλεισθη, _It is shut out_; the door of heaven is _shut_ against every thing of this kind. JEW. _BY WHAT LAW?_] By what _rule, doctrine_, or _reason_ is it shut out? by the law _of works_? The rule of obedience, which God gave to us, and by which obedience we are accepted by him? APOSTLE. _NAY_] Not by the law of works; glorying is not cut off or _shut out_ by that; it stands in full force as the rule of life; but you have _sinned_ and need pardon. _The law of works_ grants no _pardon_, it requires _obedience_, and threatens

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 are alike dependent on the mere mercy of God in Christ, all ground of boasting is of course taken away. This refers particularly to the Jews, who were much addicted to boasting of their special privileges; See the note at Romans 3:1, etc. BY WHAT LAW? - The word “law “here is used in the sense of “arrangement, rule, or economy.” By what arrangement, or by the operation of what rule, is boasting excluded? “(Stuart).” See Galatians 3:21; Acts 21:20....

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 made to what has been so far said. Some difficulty in determining his exact meaning arises from the concise and pregnant form in which the objections are put and answered, and from fresh ones arising out of the answers, which have also to be met. The objections are from the Jewish standpoint, though not put into the mouth of an objecting Jew, but rather suggested as likely ones by St. Paul himself. To the original readers of the Epistle, who were familiar with the tone of Jewish thought, the sequence of the ideas would probably be more obvious than to us. Reserving special consideration of successive clauses for our exposition of each verse, we may,

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 being Israelites; of their having and keeping the law; of God being their God; and of their knowledge of him: nor in the Gentiles, who were ready to boast of their philosophy, wisdom, and learning; of their self-sufficiency, freewill, and of the things they had in their own power. IT IS EXCLUDED; it is shut out of doors; the key is turned upon it; it is not allowed of; it is entirely exploded: BY WHAT LAW? OF WORKS? NAY; for, that establishes boasting when men seek life, righteousness, and salvation by the works of it, and fancy they shall be able to attain them this way: BUT BY THE LAW OF FAITH: not by a law requiring faith; nor as if the Gospel was a law, a new law, a remedial law, a law...

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 lived? Or what was the benefit to him of the circumcision which was his distinctive mark? Romans 3:2. _Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ The Jews were God's chronicle-keepers. They had to guard the holy Books, «the oracles of God.» They had also to preserve the knowledge of the truth by those divers rites and ceremonies by which God was pleased to reveal himself of old time. Romans 3:3. For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbeli

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 Justifier. (Romans 3:23 .) 3. Not of Works but of Faith. (Romans 3:27 .) Romans 3:21 And now God comes forward and manifests His righteousness. Romans 3:21 must be connected with Romans 1:17. As previously stated chapter 1:18-3.20 is a paren

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 has been made of God's righteousness (Romans 1:17 *) for salvation outside of law, yet attested by law and prophets (see, _e.g., Romans 4:3_, Romans 1:17). The Jew regarded Moses-' law as a complete revelation of God's ways. Romans 3:22_ a_. It is a righteousness realised through faith in Jesus Christ, destined for all that believe. The Divine ri