Romans 3:27-31

Romans 3:27-31  Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.  For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.  Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.  Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.   
 
Since salvation is totally from God, a person cannot boast in anything he accomplished on his own.  It is faith alone and not any works of the law that justifies.  It is faith alone and not being a Jew that justifies.  It is faith alone without benefit of being born to Christian parents [John 1:13].  My father is Jew, my father is a Christian, I try to keep the Ten Commandments, or I do good works are all of no avail in being justified by God… it is faith alone that saves and boasting is excluded.

Christ obeyed the law perfectly and his perfect righteousness is imputed to believers through faith.  Therefore, through faith in Christ, believers uphold the law through this faith.  Perfection is required and faith in Christ is the only way to achieve this perfection.  Praise God that through faith in Christ, believers uphold the law and now serve in the new way of the Spirit [Rom. 7:5-6].  Believers are set free from the law of sin and death [Rom. 8:1-2].