1 Corinthians 1:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:31 —

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Jeremiah 9:23-24
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: …
2 Corinthians 10:17
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Psalms 105:3
Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Isaiah 41:16
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. glory in ... Lord--(Jr 9:23, 24)--in opposition to “flesh glorying in His presence” (1Co 1:29). In contrast to morbid slavish self-abasement, Paul joins with humility the elevating consciousness of our true dignity in Christ. He who glories is to glory in the Lord, not in the flesh, nor in the world.