All My Boast Is In Jesus

Shane & Shane build this one around a single repeated refusal: "I boast not in riches, in strength or might, but in the grace of God." Every other possible source of pride — wealth, ability, reputation — gets named and set aside in the same breath.

"O foolish pride, be crucified, the work is finished" treats pride itself as something already dealt with at the cross, not an ongoing battle still being fought from scratch. The chorus keeps circling back to the same claim from different angles: "all my boast is in Jesus, all my hope is His love."

Paul's declaration that he would boast in nothing except the cross of Christ, and his confession that he'll gladly boast in weaknesses so that Christ's power can rest on him, both sit directly behind the third verse's "I glory in weakness, to live is Christ." "Now I stand in this freedom, ransomed, clean in His sight" closes the song on a status already settled rather than one still being earned.