Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God,

and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the Law;

As you boast about the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.

What, then, is there to boast about? That has been eliminated. On what principle? On that of actions? No, but on the principle of faith.

For if Abraham was justified by actions, he would have had something to boast about though not before God.

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.

Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Not only that, but we also continue to boast about God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now been reconciled.

do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

For just as you disobeyed God in the past but now have received his mercy because of their disobedience,

Therefore, in the Messiah Jesus I have the right to boast about my work for God.