'Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.' For it is not the one who commends himself that is approved, but the one who the Lord commends — Paul quotes Jeremiah 9:24 (the *locus classicus* of biblical anti-boasting): *kaúchēsis* must be *en kyriō*, in the Lord, not *en heautō*, in oneself. The *dokimē*, approval, comes from *kyrios*, the Lord, not *préteia*, peer reputation.

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