Romans 3:27-28

3:27 Where, then, is boasting? ¹  It is excluded! By what principle? ²  Of works? No, but by the principle of faith! 3:28 For we consider that a person ³  is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law. ⁴ 

Romans 4:4

4:4 Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. ⁵ 

Romans 4:6

4:6 So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Romans 11:6

11:6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

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¹ 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.

² tn Grk “By what sort of law?”

³ tn Here ἄνθρωπον (anqrwpon) is used in an indefinite and general sense (BDAG 81 s.v. ἄνθρωπος 4.a.γ).

⁴ tn See the note on the phrase “works of the law” in Rom 3:20.

⁵ tn Grk “not according to grace but according to obligation.”