so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
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.
not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
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