Romans 4:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:31
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Galatians 3:22
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Ephesians 2:9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Here the apostle proves that Abraham was justified not by works, but by faith. Those that of all men contended most vigorously for a share in righteousness by the privileges they enjoyed, and the works they performed, were the Jews, and therefore he appeals to the case of Abraham their father, and puts his own name to the relation, being a Hebrew of the Hebrews: Abraham our father. Now surely his…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Ro 4:1-25. The Foregoing Doctrine of Justification by Faith Illustrated from the Old Testament. First: Abraham was justified by faith. 1-3. What shall we say then that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?--that is, (as the order in the original shows), “hath found, as pertaining to (‘according to,’ or ‘through’) the flesh”; meaning, “by all his natural efforts or legal obedi…