Rom 3:27-28 | JFB | STEP | 27, 28. Where is boasting then? . . . excluded. By what law? —on what principle or scheme?. of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.

Romans 3:27-28

27, 28. Where is boasting then? . . . excluded. By what law?—on what principle or scheme?.

of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.

28. Therefore we conclude, &c.—It is the unavoidable tendency of dependence upon our own works, less or more, for acceptance with God, to beget a spirit of "boasting." But that God should encourage such a spirit in sinners, by any procedure of His, is incredible. This therefore stamps falsehood upon every form of "justification by works," whereas the doctrine that.

manifestly and entirely excludes "boasting"; and this is the best evidence of its truth.

Inference second: This and no other way of salvation is adapted alike to Jew and Gentile.