7 Bible Verses about Salvation, Boasting Impossible

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift. It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it;

Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God. For what does Scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was set down to his account as righteousness. Now if a man earn his pay by his work, it is not counted to him as a favor, but it is paid him as a debt;

But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

Meanwhile. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.