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For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death.(A)

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29 so that no human being might boast[a] before God.(A) 30 It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,(B) 31 so that, as it is written, “Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:29–31 “Boasting (about oneself)” is a Pauline expression for the radical sin, the claim to autonomy on the part of a creature, the illusion that we live and are saved by our own resources. “Boasting in the Lord” (1 Cor 1:31), on the other hand, is the acknowledgment that we live only from God and for God.