22 Bible Verses about Paul's Boasting
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I protest, by the joy which I have over you in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Great is my plainness of speech to you, great is my boasting of you; I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our affliction.
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? -You indeed are our glory and
so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure;
For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth:
For I know your readiness of mind, on account of which I boasted of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago: and your zeal has incited very many.
But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you in this respect may not be in vain; that you may be ready, as I said:
as some of you also acknowledge us, that we are the cause of your rejoicing, even as you, also, are of ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.
Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.
For though I should choose to boast, I would not be void of understanding: for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me more than what he sees me to be, or what he hears of me.
holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.
But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be silenced, in my case, in the regions of Achaia.
What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting. Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed:
But we will not boast ourselves with respect to regions not measured to us; but according to the measure of the line which God, who measures, has appointed for us to reach even to you.
not boasting ourselves in the labors of others in regions not measured off to us, but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be magnified among you abundantly, according to our line,
To boast is not suitable for me; I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord. -
and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon me.
