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31. ἵνα. The sentence is incomplete. We must supply γένηται or some equivalent word.
ὁ καυχώμενος, ἐν κυρίῳ καυχάσθω. The whole work of salvation is of God. The Corinthians, like many others since, were inclined to take some of the credit to themselves. The Apostle reminds them to Whom it is due. These words are a paraphrase of Jer 9:23-24. They occur again in 2Co 10:17. The whole passage teaches us that humanity is nothing in the sight of God, except it be created anew in Christ Jesus. By virtue of His Incarnation He becomes to us wisdom, not by means of human research, but by Divine Revelation; righteousness, not by works done in obedience to law, but by the infusion of a Spirit of righteousness into the soul by Christ; sanctification (i.e. the setting apart to the working of a principle of holiness), not by human merit, but by a Divine law of growth; redemption (i.e. the paying the price of our deliverance from the captivity in which we were held by sin), because we were lost but for the Atonement made by Christ.