For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

You pride yourself on the Law; do you dishonour God by your breaches of the Law?

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.

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem.

Now in Christ Jesus I can be proud of my work for God.