Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.