You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
27 Where [pou] is boasting [kauchesis] then [oun]? It is excluded [ekkleio]. By [dia] what [poios] law [nomos]? of works [ergon]? Nay [ouchi]: but [alla] by [dia] the law [nomos] of faith [pistis]. KJV-Interlinear
27 Then
what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of
works? No, but by the law of faith. ESV
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No. Mans works and faith are mutually exclusive, meaning that they cannot both exist. You either live by one or the other. And faith is of course the better of the two.