²⁹ so that no one may boast before him.^(A)

⁹ not by works,^(A) so that no one can boast.^(B)

²⁷ Where, then, is boasting?^(A) It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

⁷ For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive?^(A) And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

³¹ Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”^[a](A)

¹⁷ Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus^(A) in my service to God.^(B)

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says,^(A) it says to those who are under the law,^(B) so that every mouth may be silenced^(C) and the whole world held accountable to God.^(D)

⁶ Your boasting is not good.^(A) Don’t you know that a little yeast^(B) leavens the whole batch of dough?^(C)

² If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God.^(A)

²³ This is what the Lord says: