1 Corinthians 1:31 - Exposition

As it is written. A compressed quotation from the Septuagint Version of Jeremiah 9:23 , Jeremiah 9:24 ; 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 , Jeremiah 9:24 ; 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.