48 Bible Verses about Boasting
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Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
But now you glory in your boasting; all such glorying is evil.
For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.
But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.
not boasting of things unmeasured in the labors of others, but having a hope, your faith being increased, that we shall be magnified among you according to our rule abundantly,
It is not expedient therefore for me to boast [of these things]; for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
But we will not boast of things not measured, but according to the measure of the rule which God has given us, to come even to you.
For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not?
not of works, that no one may boast;
You who boast of the law, by the transgression of the law do you dishonor God?
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness.
I have therefore cause of boasting in Christ Jesus in respect to things relating to God;
What I say, I do not say according to the Lord, but as it were in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Show them therefore the proof of your love, and of our boasting of you before the churches.
Again, I say let no one think me to be foolish; but if otherwise, even as a foolish man bear with me that I may boast a little.
For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.
holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.
boast not against the branches; but if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,
For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that in purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a divine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most abundantly towards you.
for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
for if I had boasted of you to him I was not ashamed, but as we said all things to you in truth, so also the boasting of you to Titus was truth.
But let each one prove his work, and then shall he have joy in himself alone and not in another,
For if I should even boast some of our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.
to preach the gospel in the parts beyond you, not to boast of things prepared by another's rule.
Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting in respect to myself shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my coming again to you.
For the circumcised themselves do not keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,
Of such a one will I boast, but of myself I will not boast except of my infirmities.
Come now, you that say, To-day and to-morrow we will go to such a city and engage in business there a year, and trade and make profits,
From Thematic Bible
Boasting » Boasting, the folly of
Boasting » Boasting in God
But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,
Boasting » Spiritual
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive, boast not against the branches; but if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you. You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. read more.
Well; they were broken off by unbelief, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear; for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect. For the word of the cross is to the lost foolishness, but to the saved the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent. read more.
Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe; and since the Jews seek signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom, we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness, but to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and 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, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called]; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty, and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are, that no flesh may glory in the sight of God. But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, 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
Come now, you that say, To-day and to-morrow we will go to such a city and engage in business there a year, and trade and make profits, who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away; for you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall both live and do this or that. read more.
But now you glory in your boasting; all such glorying is evil.
Boasting » Instances of » The disciples
And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us by your name.
but in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
Boasting » Instances of » Sennacherib
Boasting » Those that boast of a false gift
Boasting » Who boasts of their heart’s desire
Boasting » Instances of » benhadad
Boasting » Of evil
Boasting » Instances of » Goliath
Topics on Boasting
Boasting Excluded
Romans 3:27Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Boasting In God
1 Corinthians 1:31that as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
Boasting, Condemned
1 John 2:16for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Boasting, Foolish
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4Let no one deceive you in any way, for [he shall not come] unless the apostacy comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
Boasting, Legitimate
1 Corinthians 1:31that as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
Justification Excluding Boasting
Romans 3:27-28Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Paul's Boasting
1 Corinthians 15:31By the joy on account of you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Salvation, Boasting Impossible
Ephesians 2:8-9For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God;
