29That no flesh should glory in his presence.
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Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-31)We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (1 Cor. 1:17), the enticing words of man’s wisdom (1 Cor. 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have been the peculiar recommendations of some of the heads of the faction in this…
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