Romans 3:28

3:28 For we consider that a person ¹  is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law. ² 

Romans 2:13

2:13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. ³ 

Romans 3:20-21

3:20 For no one is declared righteous before him ⁴  by the works of the law, ⁵  for through the law comes ⁶  the knowledge of sin. 3:21 But now ⁷  apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) ⁸  has been disclosed –

Romans 3:27

3:27 Where, then, is boasting? ⁹  It is excluded! By what principle? ¹⁰  Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

Romans 5:13

5:13 for before the law was given, ¹¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ¹²  when there is no law.

Romans 2:18

2:18 and know his will ¹³  and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law, ¹⁴ 

Romans 2:23

2:23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

Romans 4:14

4:14 For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified. ¹⁵ 

Romans 10:4

10:4 For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

Romans 13:10

13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

[3:28]  ¹ tn Here ἄνθρωπον (anqrwpon) is used in an indefinite and general sense (BDAG 81 s.v. ἄνθρωπος 4.a.γ).

[3:28]  ² tn See the note on the phrase “works of the law” in Rom 3:20.

[2:13]  ³ tn The Greek sentence expresses this contrast more succinctly than is possible in English. Grk “For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.”

[3:20]  ⁵ sn An allusion to Ps 143:2.

[3:20]  ⁶ tn Grk “because by the works of the law no flesh is justified before him.” Some recent scholars have understood the phrase ἒργα νόμου (erga nomou, “works of the law”) to refer not to obedience to the Mosaic law generally, but specifically to portions of the law that pertain to things like circumcision and dietary laws which set the Jewish people apart from the other nations (e.g., J. D. G. Dunn, Romans [WBC], 1:155). Other interpreters, like C. E. B. Cranfield (“‘The Works of the Law’ in the Epistle to the Romans,” JSNT 43 [1991]: 89-101) reject this narrow interpretation for a number of reasons, among which the most important are: (1) The second half of v. 20, “for through the law comes the knowledge of sin,” is hard to explain if the phrase “works of the law” is understood in a restricted sense; (2) the plural phrase “works of the law” would have to be understood in a different sense from the singular phrase “the work of the law” in 2:15; (3) similar phrases involving the law in Romans (2:13, 14; 2:25, 26, 27; 7:25; 8:4; and 13:8) which are naturally related to the phrase “works of the law” cannot be taken to refer to circumcision (in fact, in 2:25 circumcision is explicitly contrasted with keeping the law). Those interpreters who reject the “narrow” interpretation of “works of the law” understand the phrase to refer to obedience to the Mosaic law in general.

[3:20]  ⁷ tn Grk “is.”

[3:21]  ⁷ tn Νυνὶ δέ (Nuni de, “But now”) could be understood as either (1) logical or (2) temporal in force, but most recent interpreters take it as temporal, referring to a new phase in salvation history.

[3:21]  ⁸ tn Grk “being witnessed by the law and the prophets,” a remark which is virtually parenthetical to Paul’s argument.

[3:27]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “By what sort of law?”

[5:13]  ¹¹ tn Grk “for before the law.”

[5:13]  ¹² tn Or “sin is not reckoned.”

[2:18]  ¹³ tn Grk “the will.”

[2:18]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “because of being instructed out of the law.”

[4:14]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “rendered inoperative.”