8 Bible Verses about Boasting Excluded
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Where then is the [basis for] boasting [i.e., over being right with God]? There is not any. Is it by [obedience to] a law? Is it by doing certain deeds? Not at all, but by a law of faith.
For who makes you different [from each other]? [i.e., with some being viewed as superior and others inferior]. And what do you have that you did not receive [from God]? But if you received it [from Him], then why do you boast as though you did not [receive it as a gift]?
For if Abraham had been made right with God by doing good deeds he would have had something to boast about, but not in God's presence.
It was not the result of your own [good] deeds [See Titus 3:5], so that no one could boast [about it].
[But] I do not have anything to boast about if I preach the good news because I am compelled to do it. For it would be too bad for me if I did not preach the good news.
[This is] so we can proclaim the good news [about Christ] even to areas beyond you [Note: Perhaps Paul here alludes to such places as Italy and Spain], and [thereby] not boast over what has [already] been done in someone else's field of service.
I will boast on behalf of this person, but I will not boast about myself [anymore], except about my weaknesses.
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