Psalms 34:2
My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
BSB
ASV
My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah: The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.
KJV
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
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Jeremiah 9:24But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…
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Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
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1 Corinthians 1:31Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
The Hebrew word nvym, anavim, which we have rendered humble, signifies not all the afflicted in general, but those who, being humbled and subdued by afflictions, instead of breathing the spirit of pride, are cast down, and ready to abase themselves to the very dust.
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. Boasting is a very natural propensity, and if it were used as in this case, the more it were indulged the better. The exultation of this verse is no mere tongue bragging, "the soul" is in it, the boasting is meant and felt before it is expressed. What scope there is for holy boasting in Jehovah!
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.