Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. |
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. |
Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. |
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. |
Then what becomes of [our] boasting? It is excluded (banished, ruled out entirely). On what principle? [On the principle] of doing good deeds? No, but on the principle of faith. |
Where then is the glorying? It was once for all excluded. Through what kind of a law? Of the aforementioned works? Not at all, but through the law of faith, |
What happens now to human pride of achievement? There is no more room for it. Why, because failure to keep the Law has killed it? Not at all, but because the whole matter is now on a different plane – believing. |
So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith. |
- No cross references or parallel passage have been cited for this verse.