What Does Romans 3:27 Mean in the King James?
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Trust removes the ground for self-credit, so boasting has nowhere to stand.
THE MEANING
Boasting is excluded now because trust makes your standing rest on what is received, not on your performance. The “law of faith” names this order: you lean your full weight on what is given, leaving no achievement to claim as its source.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
“I secure my standing by my record, so I can boast that I earned it.”
THE ROOT
καύχησις
kauchēsis
GROWS FROM
καυχ-
kauch-
Boast, exult, take pride.
English can make boasting sound like loud self-praise, but this word family includes both boasting and what gives someone a basis to boast. The verse closes off that basis: it concerns not only what you say, but what you can claim as your own.
ALSO GROWS
kauchaomai: Boast, exult, take pride.
καυχάομαι
This verb names the act of claiming honor for oneself, showing the personal expression of the same word family.
kauchema: Boast; ground or cause for boasting.
καύχημα
Romans 4:2 uses this related noun for what someone might claim as a boast, revealing that the issue reaches down to the basis of self-credit.
πίστεως
pisteōs
GROWS FROM
πειθ- (peith-), from πείθω (peithō)
Persuade, win over, be convinced; trust.
“faith” in this verse is pisteōs. Here, trust is not a score for correct belief but a weight placed on what is reliable. Joined to the exclusion of boasting, it names a way of receiving that cannot turn achievement into a claim.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: Persuade, convince; trust.
πείθω
The family links trust with being persuaded or assured, so faith carries the sense of reliance rather than mere opinion.
pistos: Reliable, firm, steady.
πιστός
The same family describes what can be relied on as well as the act of relying, joining trust to firmness rather than to a record of works.
THE PATTERN
When standing is received through trust, human achievement loses its claim to boast.
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:Not of works, lest any man should boast.That no flesh should glory in his presence.THE THREAD
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.Romans 3:27 asks where boasting has gone; this verse names the test case and says that works would give Abraham a ground for boasting. The Greek family καυχ- (kauch-, boast or exult) links the two verses, making explicit that trust excludes the very ground for self-credit.
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