For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the opportunity from them which desire an opportunity; that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.
For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to boast on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which boast in appearance, and not in heart.
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of the Messiah, the righteousness which is of Yahweh by faith:
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Yahweh Elohim of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other elohim.