Romans 3:27

3:27 Where, then, is boasting? ¹  It is excluded! By what principle? ²  Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

Romans 8:10

8:10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but ³  the Spirit is your life ⁴  because of righteousness.

[3:27]  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.

[3:27]  ² tn Grk “By what sort of law?”

[8:10]  ³ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.

[8:10]  ⁴ tn Or “life-giving.” Grk “the Spirit is life.”