58 Bible Verses about Boasting
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Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.
But the one who boasts should boast in this,
that he understands and knows Me—
that I am Yahweh, showing faithful love,
justice, and righteousness on the earth,
for I delight in these things.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because an obligation is placed on me. And woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.
We are not bragging beyond measure about other people’s labors. But we have the hope that as your faith increases, our area of ministry will be greatly enlarged,
Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
We, however, will not boast beyond measure but according to the measure of the area of ministry that God has assigned to us, which reaches even to you.
For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?
not from works, so that no one can boast.
You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
This is what the Lord says:
The wise man must not boast in his wisdom;
the strong man must not boast in his strength;
the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth.
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.
What I say in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but foolishly.
Therefore, show them proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you.
I repeat: No one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so I too may boast a little.
Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.
But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!
do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,
For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.
For everything that belongs to the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.
But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.
For if I boast some more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I am not ashamed.
The king of Israel answered, “Say this: ‘Don’t let the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.’”
so that we may proclaim the good news to the regions beyond you, not boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.
For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”Why brag about evil, you hero!
God’s faithful love is constant.
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast permeates the whole batch of dough?
Do not boast so proudly,
or let arrogant words come out of your mouth,
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and actions are weighed by Him.
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
The man who boasts about a gift that does not exist
is like clouds and wind without rain.
so that, because of me, your confidence may grow in Christ Jesus when I come to you again.
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—
a stranger, and not your own lips.
For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves; however, they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.
Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,
I will boast about this person, but not about myself, except of my weaknesses.
I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
From Thematic Bible
Boasting » Boasting, the folly of
the one who is greedy curses
They trust in their wealth and boast of their abundant riches. Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God-
For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”
God’s faithful love is constant.
but after he is on his way, he gloats.
is like clouds and wind without rain.
Boasting » Boasting in God
will be justified and find glory through the Lord.
that he understands and knows Me
that I am Yahweh, showing faithful love,
justice, and righteousness on the earth,
for I delight in these things.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Now if
Boasting » Spiritual
For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”
God’s faithful love is constant.
They trust in their wealth and boast of their abundant riches. Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God- since the price of redeeming him is too costly, one should forever stop trying- read more.
so that he may live forever and not see the Pit.
all the evildoers boast.
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree, do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag-you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." read more.
True enough; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel-not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied [of its effect]. For to those who are perishing the message of the cross is foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is God's power. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the experts. read more.
Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn't God made the world's wisdom foolish? For since, in God's wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached. For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom, because God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. Brothers, consider your calling: not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. Instead, God has chosen the world's foolish things to shame the wise, and God has chosen the world's weak things to shame the strong. God has chosen the world's insignificant and despised things-the things viewed as nothing-so He might bring to nothing the things that are viewed as something, so that no one can boast in His presence. But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who for us became wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.
Boasting » What not to boast of
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit." You don't even know what tomorrow will bring-what your life will be! For you are a bit of smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes. Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." read more.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Boasting » Instances of » The disciples
The Seventy
Boasting » Instances of » Sennacherib
Then
For he says: Aren't all my commanders kings? Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus? As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms, whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, read more.
and as I did to Samaria and its idols will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols? But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, [He will say,] "I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes." For he said: I have done [this] by my own strength and wisdom, for I am clever. I abolished the borders of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants. My hand has reached out, as if into a nest, to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered the whole earth. No wing fluttered; no beak opened or chirped. Does an ax exalt itself above the one who chops with it? Does a saw magnify itself above the one who saws with it? As if a staff could wave those who lift it! As if a rod could lift what isn't wood!
Boasting » Those that boast of a false gift
is like clouds and wind without rain.
Boasting » Who boasts of their heart’s desire
the one who is greedy curses
Boasting » Instances of » benhadad
Then Ben-hadad sent messengers to him and said, “May the gods punish me and do so severely
Boasting » Of evil
For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”
God’s faithful love is constant.
Boasting » Instances of » Goliath
Topics on Boasting
Boasting Excluded
Romans 3:27Where then is boasting?
Boasting In God
Jeremiah 9:23This is what the Lord says:
the strong man must not boast in his strength;
the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth.
Boasting, Condemned
1 John 2:16For everything that belongs to
Boasting, Foolish
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy
Boasting, Legitimate
Jeremiah 9:23-24This is what the Lord says:
the strong man must not boast in his strength;
the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth.
Justification Excluding Boasting
Romans 3:27-28Where then is boasting?
Paul's Boasting
1 Corinthians 15:31I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day!
Salvation, Boasting Impossible
Ephesians 2:8-9For you are saved by grace
