Roma 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!

Roma 10:1-3

10:1 Brothers and sisters, ³  my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites ⁴  is for their salvation. 10:2 For I can testify that they are zealous for God, ⁵  but their zeal is not in line with the truth. ⁶  10:3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s 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?”

[10:1]  ³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[10:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “on behalf of them”; the referent (Paul’s fellow Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:2]  ⁵ tn Grk “they have a zeal for God.”

[10:2]  ⁶ tn Grk “in accord with knowledge.”

[10:2]  sn Their zeal is not in line with the truth means that the Jews’ passion for God was strong, but it ignored the true righteousness of God (v. 3; cf. also 3:21).