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Romans 3:27
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Romans 3:27
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27 Where, then, is boasting?[a] It is excluded! By what principle?[b] Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!
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- Romans 3:27 tn Although a number of interpreters understand the “boasting” here to refer to Jewish boasting, others (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, “‘The Works of the Law’ in the Epistle to the Romans,” JSNT 43 [1991]: 96) take the phrase to refer to all human boasting before God.
- Romans 3:27 tn Grk “By what sort of law?”
Romans 4:2-3
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Romans 4:2-3
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2 For if Abraham was declared righteous[a] by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God. 3 For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited[b] to him as righteousness.”[c]
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- Romans 4:2 tn Or “was justified.”
- Romans 4:3 tn The term λογίζομαι (logizomai) occurs 11 times in this chapter (vv. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 22, 23, 24). In secular usage it could (a) refer to deliberations of some sort, or (b) in commercial dealings (as virtually a technical term) to “reckoning” or “charging up a debt.” See H. W. Heidland, TDNT 4:284, 290-92.
- Romans 4:3 sn A quotation from Gen 15:6.
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