Audio commentary on this verse

Note 11 at Ro 3:27: Boasting, bragging, and pride about our holiness or spiritual accomplishments are sure signs that we don't understand justification by grace through faith like Paul was teaching it here. If we acknowledge that we are no better than anyone else regardless of our conduct and that the only way we obtained peace with God was through putting faith in what Jesus did for us, then there is no room for boasting about our achievements. It was the accomplishments of Jesus that saved us.

Pride is the root of all divisions in the church today (see note 11 at Ac 20:30). Therefore, the prevalence of division in the church is a painful testimony to the lack of this foundational truth of justification by grace through faith.

Note 12 at Ro 3:27: Notice that Paul referred to the law of faith. Faith is governed by law, just as gravity or electricity is. If we would view faith as a law, rather than as something that sometimes works and other times doesn't, we would begin to get very different results.

The law of electricity has been here on earth since creation. Man has observed it in such things as lightning and static electricity, but it was not until someone believed that there were laws that governed the activity of electricity that progress began to be made in putting it to use. Likewise, none deny the existence of faith, but it is only when people begin to understand that there are laws that govern faith and then begin to learn what those laws are that faith begins to work for them.