Romans 3:28
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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 by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
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- BSB
- For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
- KJV
- Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
- WEB
- We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
- ASV
- We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
- DARBY
- for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.
- BLB
- For we reckon a man to be justified by faith apart from works of law.
- ÅB
- For vi holder fast at mennesket blir rettferdiggjort ved troen, uten lov-gjerninger.
- OTB
- For vi mener at et menneske blir rettferdiggjort ved tro, uavhengig av lovens gjerninger.
- B1930
- For vi holder for at mennesket blir rettferdiggjort ved troen, uten lov-gjerninger.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Titus 3:7
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Read in contextGalatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Read in contextGalatians 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Read in contextGalatians 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Read in contextRomans 3:26
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Read in contextRomans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Read in contextJames 2:24
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Read in contextRomans 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
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