48 Bible Verses about Boasting

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James 4:16

But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For, if I proclaim the Gospel, it is not to me a matter of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me, if I proclaim not the Gospel.

2 Corinthians 10:15

not glorying beyond our measure in other men's labors; but, having hope that, as your faith increases, we shall be enlarged among you according to our limit to further abundance,

2 Corinthians 11:18

Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will glory;

2 Corinthians 12:1

It is needful for me to glory, though, indeed, not profitable; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 10:13

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you.

Romans 2:23

You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law?

2 Corinthians 11:17

What I am speaking I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

2 Corinthians 8:24

Show ye, therefore, toward them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

2 Corinthians 11:16

I say again, let no one think me foolish; but, if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I too may glory a little.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.

Romans 11:18

boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you.

Romans 2:17

But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,

2 Corinthians 7:14

For, if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not made ashamed; but, as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our glorying before Titus was found to be truth.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For, even if I glory somewhat more abundantly concerning our authority??hich the Lord gave for building you up, and not for tearing you down?? shall not be put to shame;

2 Corinthians 10:16

so as to proclaim the Gospel in the regions beyond you, not to glory in another's limit in the things made ready to our hand.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

2 Corinthians 11:10

As the truth of Christ is in me, this glorying shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia.

Philippians 1:26

that your glorying may abound in Jesus Christ in me through my presence with you again.

Galatians 6:13

For neither do those themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

2 Corinthians 12:5

On behalf of such a one I will glory; but on my own behalf I will not glory, except in my weaknesses.

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Boasting » Boasting, the folly of

Boasting » Boasting in God

Romans 2:17

But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,

Boasting » Spiritual

Romans 11:17-21

And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree; boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you. You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." read more.
Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear. For, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will He spare you.

1 Corinthians 1:17-31

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Gospel; not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness; but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God. For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I set aside." read more.
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For, since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe; seeing that both Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, a stumbling-block, and to the gentiles foolishness; but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen; but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong; and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are; that no flesh should glory before God. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who was made to us wisdom from God, also righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; that, even as it has been written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

Boasting » What not to boast of

James 4:13-16

Come now, ye who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and trade, and get gain," (ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away); instead of your saying, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that." read more.
But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.

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Boasting, Foolish

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed??he son of perdition;

Justification Excluding Boasting

Romans 3:27-28

Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.

Paul's Boasting

1 Corinthians 15:31

Daily am I dying, I avow by the glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Salvation, Boasting Impossible

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God:

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