For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.