48 Bible Verses about Boasting

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James 4:16

But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.

2 Corinthians 10:15

not boasting ourselves in the labors of others in regions not measured off to us, but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be magnified among you abundantly, according to our line,

2 Corinthians 11:18

Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

2 Corinthians 12:1

To boast is not suitable for me; I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord. -

2 Corinthians 10:13

But we will not boast ourselves with respect to regions not measured to us; but according to the measure of the line which God, who measures, has appointed for us to reach even to you.

Romans 2:23

You who make your boast in the law, do you, by transgressing the law, dishonor God?

2 Corinthians 11:17

What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

2 Corinthians 8:24

Therefore, give to them, in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our boasting of you.

2 Corinthians 11:16

I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

Romans 11:18

boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you.

Romans 2:17

But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth:

2 Corinthians 10:8

For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed:

2 Corinthians 10:16

so as to preach the gospel in regions beyond you, and not to boast in regions made ready under another man's line.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

2 Corinthians 11:10

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be silenced, in my case, in the regions of Achaia.

Philippians 1:26

that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may be come more abundant through me by my being present among you again.

Galatians 6:13

For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

2 Corinthians 12:5

Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.

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Boasting » Boasting, the folly of

Boasting » Boasting in God

Romans 2:17

But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

Boasting » Spiritual

Romans 11:17-21

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive, boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you. You will say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. read more.
Well; on ac count of unbelief they were broken off; but you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, lest he spare not you.

1 Corinthians 1:17-31

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power. For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will set aside the understanding of the prudent. read more.
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of- this world? For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe. For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness: but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may bring to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may put to shame the strong; and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us, from God, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption; that, as it is written: He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

Boasting » What not to boast of

James 4:13-16

Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain; and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away? Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. read more.
But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.

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Topics on Boasting

Boasting, Foolish

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come, unless the apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Justification Excluding Boasting

Romans 3:27-28

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.

Paul's Boasting

1 Corinthians 15:31

I protest, by the joy which I have over you in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Salvation, Boasting Impossible

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace you have been saved through the faith; and this matter is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

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