8 Bible Verses about Salvation, Boasting Impossible

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: Not of works, lest any one should boast.

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

And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God. For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice. And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt.

And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

That no flesh might boast before him.

But he boasting, let him boast in the Lord.

Thus said Jehovah, The wise shall not boast in his wisdom, and the strong shall not boast in his strength; the rich shall not boast in his riches: But he boasting shall boast in this, to understand and know me, that I am Jehovah, doing mercy, judgment and justice in the earth: for in these I delighted, says Jehovah.