22 Bible Verses about Paul's Boasting
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I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day.
I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.
For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming?
Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.
For if I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.
for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year; and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be;
as you have understood us in part, that you can be proud of us just as we can be of you, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
On behalf of such a man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.
Though if I should boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with holiness and godly sincerity, not in worldly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and still more toward you.
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
What I am saying I am not saying as the Lord would, but as a fool, in this confidence of boasting. Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I shall not be put to shame.
But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has apportioned to us, a field that reaches even to you.
We do not go beyond limits by boasting in other men's labors, but our hope is that as your faith grows, our sphere among you may be greatly enlarged,
I must go on boasting, though there is nothing to be gained by it; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
