1st Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 31 Holy Bible
that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
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that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in [the] Lord.
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That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
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that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'
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1st Corinthians 1 : 31 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - As it is written. A compressed quotation from the Septuagint Version of Jeremiah 9:23, 24; 1 Samuel 2:10. Let him glory in the Lord. The word rendered "glory" is more literally, boast. The reference is to Jeremiah 9:23, 24; 1 Samuel 2:10 (LXX.). The prevalence of "boasting" among the Corinthians and their teachers drove St. Paul to dwell much on this word - from which he so greatly shrinks - in 2 Corinthians 10:12. (where the word occurs twenty times), and to insist that the only true object in which a Christian can glory is the cross (Galatians 6:14), not in himself, or in the world, or in men.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) That.--So that it might be as the prophet wrote, "He that boasteth, let him boast in the Lord." This is not a literal quotation, but only an adaptation and paraphrase from the LXX. of Jeremiah 9:23-24. Our only true boasting before God is that we are in Christ, that all we have we owe entirely to Him; we can only glory in, not ourselves or what we have or are, but in the fact that He is our benefactor. Thus, in St. Chrysostom's quaint words, Paul "always fasteneth them on with nails to the name of Christ."This concludes St. Paul's general explanation of God's method, and he then turns to his own conduct, to show how entirely it was in harmony with God's plan, which he has just explained and vindicated.
