Romans 3:28

Amplified Bible

For we maintain that an individual is justified by faith distinctly apart from works of the Law [the observance of which has nothing to do with justification, that is, being declared free of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God].

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I mean we are made right with God through faith, not through what we have done to follow the law. This is what we believe.

Revised Standard Version
For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For we suppose that a man is iustified by fayth without the dedes of ye lawe.

Hebrew Names Version
We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

International Standard Version
ForTherefore">[fn] we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works prescribed by the law.Acts 13:38-39; Romans 8:3; 3:20-22; Galatians 2:16;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

New Century Version
A person is made right with God through faith, not through obeying the law.

Update Bible Version
For we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

English Standard Version
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

World English Bible
We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Nay, but by the law of faith. We conclude then, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law.

Weymouth's New Testament
For we maintain that it is as the result of faith that a man is held to be righteous, apart from actions done in obedience to Law.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For we demen a man to be iustified bi the feith, with outen werkis of the lawe.

English Revised Version
We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Berean Standard Bible
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Contemporary English Version
We see that people are acceptable to God because they have faith, and not because they obey the Law.

American Standard Version
We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Bible in Basic English
For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, we hold the view that a person comes to be considered righteous by God on the ground of trusting, which has nothing to do with legalistic observance of Torah commands.

Darby Translation
for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

Etheridge Translation
We comprehend, therefore, that by faith man is justified, and not by the works of the law.

Murdock Translation
We therefore conclude, that it is by faith a man is justified, and not by the works of the law.

King James Version (1611)
Therefore wee conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the deeds of the Law.

New Living Translation
So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.

New Life Bible
This is what we have come to know. A man is made right with God by putting his trust in Christ. It is not by his doing what the Law says.

New Revised Standard
For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore we conclude that it is by faith a man is justified and not by the works of the law.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For we reckon that a man is to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore, we holde that a man is iustified by fayth, without the deedes of the lawe.

Good News Translation
For we conclude that a person is put right with God only through faith, and not by doing what the Law commands.

Christian Standard Bible®
For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

King James Version
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Lexham English Bible
For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Literal Translation
Then we conclude a man to be justified by faith without works of Law.

Young's Literal Translation
therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We holde therfore that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the lawe.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.

New English Translation
For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

New King James Version
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Let me say this plain, you are made right with God through faith, not by obeying rules.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

Legacy Standard Bible
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹Now we know that whatever the Law [of Moses] says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the excuses of] every mouth may be silenced [from protesting] and that all the world may be held accountable to God [and subject to His judgment]. ²⁰For no person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin [and the recognition of sin directs us toward repentance, but provides no remedy for sin]. ²¹But now the righteousness of God has been clearly revealed [independently and completely] apart from the Law, though it is [actually] confirmed by the Law and the [words and writings of the] Prophets. ²²This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ for all those [Jew or Gentile] who believe [and trust in Him and acknowledge Him as God's Son]. There is no distinction, ²³since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴and are being justified [declared free of the guilt of sin, made acceptable to God, and granted eternal life] as a gift by His [precious, undeserved] grace, through the redemption [the payment for our sin] which is [provided] in Christ Jesus, ²⁵whom God displayed publicly [before the eyes of the world] as a [life-giving] sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation (propitiation) by His blood [to be received] through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness [which demands punishment for sin], because in His forbearance [His deliberate restraint] He passed over the sins previously committed [before Jesus' crucifixion]. ²⁶It was to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the One who justifies those who have faith in Jesus [and rely confidently on Him as Savior]. ²⁷Then what becomes of [our] boasting? It is excluded [entirely ruled out, banished]. On what principle? On [the principle of good] works? No, but on the principle of faith. ²⁸For we maintain that an individual is justified by faith distinctly apart from works of the Law [the observance of which has nothing to do with justification, that is, being declared free of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 3:20-22, Romans 3:26, Romans 4:5, Romans 5:1, Romans 8:3, John 3:14-18, John 5:24, John 6:40, Acts 13:38, Acts 13:39, 1 Corinthians 6:11, Galatians 2:16, Galatians 3:8, Galatians 3:11-14, Galatians 3:24, Philippians 3:9, Titus 3:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:10 - Every Romans 3:30 - General Romans 11:6 - And if Ephesians 2:9 - General Titus 3:5 - by works

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore we conclude,.... This is the conclusion from the premises, the sum total of the whole account:

that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. The subject of justification is, "man", not in opposition to angels; nor does it design the Jew against the Gentile, though some have so thought; but the apostle names neither Jew nor Gentile, but "man", to show that Christ's righteousness is unto all, and every man, that believes, be he who he will; and is to be understood indefinitely, that every man that is justified is justified by faith. The means is "by faith", not habitually or actually considered; that is, either as an habit and principle infused into us, or as an act performed by us; but either organically, as it is a means of receiving Christ's righteousness; or objectively, as it denotes Christ the object of it: and all this is done "without works", of any sort; not by a faith which is without works, for such a faith is dead, and of no avail; but by faith without works joined to it, in the affair of justification; or by the righteousness of Christ imputed by God the Father, without any consideration of them, and received by faith, and relied upon by the believer, without any regard unto them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - As the result of the previous train of argument.

That a man - That all who are justified; that is, that there is no other way.

Is justified by faith - Is regarded and treated as righteous, by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Without the deeds of the law - Without works as a meritorious ground of justification. The apostle, of course, does not mean that Christianity does not produce good works, or that they who are justified will not obey the Law, and be holy; but that no righteousness of their own will be the ground of their justification. They are sinners; and as such can have no claim to he treated as righteous. God has devised a plan by which, they may be pardoned and saved; and that is by faith alone. This is the grand uniqueness of the Christian religion. This was the special point in the reformation from popery. Luther often called this doctrine of justification by faith the article upon which the church stood or fell - articulus stantis, vel cadentis ecclesiae - and it is so. If this doctrine is held entire, all others will be held with it. If this is abandoned, all others will fall also. It may be remarked here, however, that this doctrine by no means interferes with the doctrine that good works are to be performed by Christians. Paul urges this as much as any other writer in the New Testament. His doctrine is, that they are not to be relied on as a ground of justification; but that he did not mean to teach that they are not to be performed by Christians is apparent from the connection, and from the following places in his epistles: Romans 2:7; 2 Corinthians 9:8; Ephesians 2:10; 1Ti 2:10; 1 Timothy 5:10, 1Ti 5:25; 1 Timothy 6:18; 2 Timothy 3:17; Titus 2:7, Titus 2:14; Titus 3:8; Hebrews 10:24. That we are not justified by our works is a doctrine which he has urged and repeated with great power and frequency. See Romans 4:2, Romans 4:6; Romans 9:11, Romans 9:32; Romans 11:6; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:2, Galatians 3:5,Galatians 3:10; Ephesians 2:9; 2 Timothy 1:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. Therefore we conclude, c.] Seeing these things cannot be denied, viz., that all have sinned: that all are guilty, that all are helpless: that none can deliver his own soul, and that God, in his endless mercy, has opened a new and living way to the holiest by the blood of Jesus, Hebrews 10:19-20, &c: therefore we, apostles and Christian teachers, conclude, λογιζομεθα, prove by fair, rational consequence, that a man - any man, is justified - has his sins blotted out, and is received into the Divine favour, by faith in Christ's blood, without the deeds of the law, which never could afford, either to Jew or Gentile, a ground for justification, because both have sinned against the law which God has given them, and, consequently, forfeited all right and title to the blessings which the obedient might claim.