7 Bible Verses about Salvation, Boasting Impossible
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for by grace are ye saved, thro' faith (and that not from us: it is the gift of God) but not by works, so that no man can boast:
what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded. what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith.
but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world.
for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God. for what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." the reward is not counted as a favour to him that has done good actions, but as a debt:
and if it be by favour, it is not upon the account of merit. for then mercy would not be mercy.
that no man might glory before God;
