7 Bible Verses about Salvation, Boasting Impossible

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God. For what does scripture say? Abraham believed God and this was counted to him as righteousness. Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour;

Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.

that no person may boast in the sight of God.

However, let him who boasts boast of the Lord;