TSK · Romans 15:17

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.