1 Corinthians 1:30-31
30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
The only thing we have in which to glory is Christ. Not our sinful selves, not our efforts or accomplishments, not our reason or wisdom. Jesus Christ came as we are, yet as divine also that His sinless suffering and sacrifice would be counted to us as sinlessness by spiritual and legal proxy. He died for us to make us acceptable to the Father - without blemish in positional holiness, though we still sin as sinners saved in His grace. He redeemed us, bought us back as a ransom, from our sin and its due wrath of God. So we glory in Christ alone, for we had no part in our reconciliation.
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