48 Bible Verses about Boasting

that, as it is written, He that glorieth may glory in the Lord.

Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: but by the law of faith.

that no flesh may glory in his presence.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things which relate to my infirmity.

but ye glory in your presumption: all such glorying is wicked.

For if I preach the gospel, yet I have no ground for boasting; because I am under necessity to do it: and wo is me if I do not preach the Gospel.

But let him, that glorieth, glory in the Lord.

But God forbid that I should glory, unless in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Therefore let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

Not boasting of things beyond our limits in other men's labors; but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be abundantly enlarged by you according to our line,

Since many boast in the flesh, I will boast also.

To boast indeed does not become me: but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

But we will not glory of things beyond our bounds, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath given to us, a measure to come even unto you.

For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou, which thou didst not receive? And if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

for we are his workmanship,

Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

And He said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is manifested in thy weakness." With the greatest pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

I have therefore matter of glorying in Christ Jesus, as to the things of God.

What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, in this confidence of boasting.

Therefore shew to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and the justness of our boasting concerning you.

I say again, let no one think me foolish herein; but if they do, yet bear with my weakness, that I also may boast a little.

for if Abraham were justified by works, he hath something to boast of; but this he hath not before God:

exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

and if thou boastest, remember thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially 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 of the world.

and because if I boasted of any thing to him concerning you, I was not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so likewise our boasting of you to Titus was truth.

But let every one try his own work, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.

For though I should boast yet more of our authority, (which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction) I should not be ashamed:

to preach the gospel in places beyond you; and not to boast in another's province of things ready prepared for us.

If the Lord will, and we should live, and do this or that:

Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.

that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound through me, by my coming to you again.

For they, who are circumcised, do not themselves keep the law: but they would have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Charity beareth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity is not insolent, is not puffed up,

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

Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a city, and spend a year there, and trade and get gain;