“Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Not by works so that no one can boast — the explicit negation of ergon ('works') as salvific agent establishes justification by grace alone; the purpose clause hina mē tis kauchēsai ('that no one might boast') echoes Romans 3:27-28, making the exclusion of human merit central to Paul's soteriology.
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