48 Bible Verses about Boasting

in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--let his boast be in the Lord."

Where then is there room for your boasting? It is for ever shut out. On what principle? On the ground of merit? No, but on the ground of faith.

to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.

If boast I must, it shall be of things which display my weakness.

But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.

If I go on preaching the Good News, that is nothing for me to boast of; for the necessity is imposed upon me; and alas for me, if I fail to preach it!

But "whoever boasts, let his boast be in the Lord."

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers.

We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour,

Since many boast for merely human reasons, I too will boast.

I am compelled to boast. It is not a profitable employment, but I will proceed to visions and revelations granted me by the Lord.

We, however, will not exceed due limits in our boasting, but will keep within the limits of the sphere which God has assigned to us as a limit, which reaches even to you.

Why, who gives you your superiority, my brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? And if you really did receive it, why boast as if this were not so?

so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.

You who make your boast in the Law, do you offend against its commands and so dishonour God?

but His reply has been, "My grace suffices for you, for power matures in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I boast of my infirmities rather than complain of them--in order that Christ's power may overshadow me.

I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work for God in which I am engaged.

What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.

Exhibit therefore to the Churches a proof of your love, and a justification of our boasting to these brethren about you.

To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.

For if he was held to be righteous on the ground of his actions, he has something to boast of; but not in the presence of God.

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.

beware of glorying over the natural branches. Or if you are so glorying, do not forget that it is not you who uphold the root: the root upholds you.

And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction in the Law, and make your boast in God,

For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.

For the things in the world--the cravings of the earthly nature, the cravings of the eyes, the show and pride of life--they all come, not from the Father, but from the world.

For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the truth.

But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.

If, however, I were to boast more loudly of our Apostolic authority, which the Lord has given us that we may build you up, not pull you down, I should have no reason to feel ashamed.

and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you, not boasting in another man's sphere about work already done by him.

Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that."

It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?

Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.

so that, as Christians, you may have additional reason for glorying about me as the result of my being with you again.

For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.

Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.

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

Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business,"