Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Therefore we conclude, etc.—It is the unavoidable tendency of dependence upon our own works, less or more, for acceptance with God, to beget a spirit of "boasting." But that God should encourage such a spirit in sinners, by any procedure of His, is incredible. This therefore stamps falsehood upon every form of "justification by works," whereas the doctrine that.
Our faith receives a righteousness
That makes the sinner just,
manifestly and entirely excludes "boasting"; and this is the best evidence of its truth.
Inference second: This and no other way of salvation is adapted alike to Jew and Gentile.
INFERENCES FROM THE FOREGOING DOCTRINES AND AN OBJECTION ANSWERED. (Romans 3:27-31)
Where is boasting then? . . . excluded. By what law?—on what principle or scheme?.
of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 3:28:
Romans 3:21-23
Romans 3:27-28
Romans 4:25
2 Corinthians 3:9
James 2:14
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