Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called, The children of the living God.

And so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: