48 Bible Verses about Boasting
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that, even as it has been written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."
Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.
But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.
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.
But it could not be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has become crucified to me, and I to the world.
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,
It is needful for me to glory, though, indeed, not profitable; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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.
For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?
not of works, lest any one should boast;
You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law?
And He hath said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for My power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
What I am speaking I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Show ye, therefore, toward them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.
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.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
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.
boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you.
But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
because all that is in the world??he desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life??s not of the Father, but is of the world.
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.
But let each one prove his own work, and then will he have ground of glorying in respect to himself alone, and not to another.
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;
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.
Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
As the truth of Christ is in me, this glorying shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia.
that your glorying may abound in Jesus Christ in me through my presence with you again.
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.
Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,
On behalf of such a one I will glory; but on my own behalf I will not glory, except in my weaknesses.
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,"
From Thematic Bible
Boasting » Boasting, the folly of
Boasting » Boasting in God
But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,
Boasting » Spiritual
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.
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
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.
Boasting » Instances of » The disciples
And the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Thy name!"
Notwithstanding, rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice, because your names have been 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? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.
Boasting In God
1 Corinthians 1:31that, even as it has been written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."
Boasting, Condemned
1 John 2:16because all that is in the world??he desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life??s not of the Father, but is of the world.
Boasting, Foolish
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4Let 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;
Boasting, Legitimate
1 Corinthians 1:31that, even as it has been written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."
Justification Excluding Boasting
Romans 3:27-28Where, 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 15:31Daily am I dying, I avow by the glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Salvation, Boasting Impossible
Ephesians 2:8-9For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: