So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith.

Now when a workman gets his pay, it is not considered from the point of view of a favor but of an obligation;

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants, that he should own the world, was not conditioned on the law, but on the right standing he had with God through faith.

But you are not living on the plane of the lower nature, but on the spiritual plane, if the Spirit of God has His home within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

For even before the twin sons were born, and though they had done nothing either good or bad, that God's purpose in accordance with His choice might continue to stand, conditioned not on men's actions but on God's calling them,

So one's destiny does not depend on his own willing or strenuous actions but on God's having mercy on him.

as the Scripture says: "See, I put on Zion a stone for causing people to stumble, a rock to trip them on, but no one who puts his faith in it will ever be put to shame."

But of Israel he said: "All day long I have held out my hands to a people that is disobedient and obstinate."

The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.