²⁷ ·So do we have a reason to brag about ourselves? No! [^LWhere, then, is boasting? It is excluded.] ·And why not [^LBy what law/principle]? It is the ·way [law; principle] of faith that stops all ·bragging [boasting], not the ·way [law; principle] of ·trying to obey the law [^Lworks]. ²⁸ For we ·conclude [maintain; assert] a person is ·made right with God [justified; declared righteous] through faith, not through ·obeying [^Lthe works of] the law. ²⁹ [^LOr] Is God only the God of the Jews? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? ³⁰ Of course he is, because ·there is only one God [or God is one; Deut. 6:4]. He will ·make Jews right with him [^Ljustify/make righteous the circumcised] by their faith, and he will also ·make Gentiles right with him [^Ljustify/declare righteous the uncircumcised] through their faith. ³¹ So do we ·destroy [nullify; annul] the law by ·following the way of faith [^Lfaith]? ·No [Absolutely not; May it never be; v. 6]! ·Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants [^LWe uphold/establish/support the law; ^Cliving by faith captures the true spirit and purpose of the law; the law pointed out sin and the need for grace, thereby pointing to Christ].