Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Romans 3:27-28
No one can boast of his own sin-tainted works under God’s law as though they contributed to his salvation because we are justified and counted righteous by God through faith alone in Jesus Christ and His perfect obedience to God’s law and His atoning sacrifice on the cross for the sins of all.
O merciful God, grant that I not trust in my sin-tainted works but in the perfect works of Christ – in His holy life and in His innocent sufferings and death in my stead. Amen.
[Scripture quoted from the King James Version of the Bible.]