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Romans 3:27-31 KJV
Romans · chapter 3 · verses 27–31
27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.Romans 3:27-31 · King James Version
Romans 3:27-31 in context
25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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- uncircumcisionakrobystiahaving the foreskin, uncircumcised, a Gentile, a condition in which the corrupt desires…G203 →
- circumcisionperitomēcircumcised, the act or rite of circumcision, " they of the circumcision" is a…G4061 →
- justifieddikaioōto render righteous or such he ought to be, to show, exhibit, evince, one to be…G1344 →
- establishhistēmito cause or make to stand, to place, put, set, to bid to stand by, [set up], in the…G2476 →
- boastingkauchēsisthe act of gloryingG2746 →
- excludedekkleiōto shut out, to turn out of doors, to prevent the approach of oneG1576 →
- concludelogizomaito reckon, count, compute, calculate, count over, to take into account, to make an…G3049 →
- Gentilesethnosa multitude associated or living together, a company, troop, swarm, a multitude of…G1484 →
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From all this Paul infers that it is in vain to look for justification by the works of the law, and that it is to be had only by faith, which is the point he has been all along proving, from Rom 1:17, and which he lays down (Rom 3:28) as the summary of his discourse, with a quod erat demonstrandum - which was to be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-31