Romans 3:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. ”

Romans 3:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 sinc...
Romans 3:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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...
Romans 3:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 manifes...
Romans 3:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

boasting . i.e. of the Jew; Romans 2:17-23 . Greek. kauchesis, which means the act of boasting, while kauchema ( Romans 4:2 ) refers to the subject of the boast. excluded . Greek. ekkleio....
Romans 3:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 conclusi...
Romans 3:27 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1834 JUSTIFICATION WITHOUT BOASTING Romans 3:27-28 . 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 j...
Romans 3:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Jew. Where is boasting, then? - 'η καυχησις, This glorying of ours. Have we nothing in which we can trus...
Romans 3:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 differ...
Romans 3:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Romans 3:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 agains...
Romans 3:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Romans 3:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 9 THE ONE WAY OF DIVINE ACCEPTANCE Romans 3:21-31 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...
Romans 3:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

All Freely Justified by Grace Romans 3:21-31 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...
Romans 3:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Romans 3:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 G...
Romans 3:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 thei...
Romans 3:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 th...
Romans 3:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Romans 3:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Romans 3:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Justification by Faith; Christ a Propitiation. A. D. 58. 19 Now we know that what things soe...
Romans 3:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Romans 3:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 the...
Romans 3:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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? Ro...
Romans 3:27 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Romans 3:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 ad...
Romans 3:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Romans 3:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 3:1-45 (2) Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met. In this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle meets certain objections tha...
Romans 3:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Justification by Faith. The righteousness of God revealed:
Romans 3:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:29-31 ; 1 Corinthians 4:7 ; 1 John 5:11 ; 1 John 5:12 ; Ephesians 2:8-10 ; Ezekiel 16:62 ; Ezekiel 16:63 ; Ezekiel 36:31 ; Ezekiel 36:32 ; Galatians 2:16 ; Galatians 3:22 ;...
Romans 3:27 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Law and Grace Romans 3:19-31 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 o...
Romans 3:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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, wi...

Romans 3:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Romans 3:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 3:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Romans 3:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Romans 3:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Romans 3:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 3:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Romans 3:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 3:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 3:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 3:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 3:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 3:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 3:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Romans 3:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Romans 3:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 3:27 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Romans 3:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 3:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 3:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 3:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 3:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 3:27 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Romans 3:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes