²⁹ that no flesh should glory in His presence.

⁹ not of ^(A)works, lest anyone should ^(B)boast.

⁷ For who ^[a]makes you differ from another? And ^(A)what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

¹⁷ Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus ^(A)in the things which pertain to God.

Boasting Excluded

^27 (A)Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever ^(A)the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that ^(B)every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become ^[a]guilty before God.

²³ Thus says the Lord:

^6 (A)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that ^(B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

³¹ that, as it is written, ^(A)“He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”

² For if Abraham was ^(A)justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.