¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift is from above,^(A) coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,^(B) who does not change^(C) like shifting shadows.

¹⁷ But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”^{[a](A) 18} For it is not the one who commends himself^(B) who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.^(C)