1 How can scholars boast of wisdom or the strong be proud of power, or the wealthy vaunt their treasures which shall perish in an hour? 2 Few of all the wise and mighty, few with riches or high birth God has chosen, but the humble, counted nothing on this earth. 3 So by those the world despises God has put its strength to shame; none can glory in his presence, none may boast but in his name. 4 God delights to keep his covenant; all he does is just and right, and his act of highest mercy makes us holy in his sight. 5 So to know him is our glory and the cross is all our pride, where to all this world's inducements we with Christ are crucified. 6 Christ our wisdom, power, and treasure! Freed by him, with him made one, all who love him, called his people, boast of what the Lord has done!