For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive?
1 Cor 4
But by the grace of God I am what I am … 1 Cor 15 ⦿ He chose to give us birth through the word of truth … Jas 1 ⦿ It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. Rom 9 ⦿ Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Rom 3 ⦿ … Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God - that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption - “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
1 Cor 1