22 Bible Verses about Paul's Boasting
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I face death every day! That is as certain, brothers, as it is that I am proud of you in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.
I have great confidence in you. I am very proud of you. I am very much encouraged. I am overjoyed in all our troubles.
After all, who is our hope, joy, or reason for rejoicing in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming? It is you, isn't it?
As a result, we rejoice about you among God's churches about your endurance and faith through all the persecutions and afflictions you are experiencing.
For if I have been doing some boasting about you to him, I have never been ashamed of it. Moreover, since everything we told you was true, our boasting to Titus has also proved to be true.
For I know how willing you are, and I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated most of them.
Now I have sent the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter may not prove to be an idle boast, and so that you may stand ready, just as I said.
just as you have already understood us partially, so that on the Day of our Lord Jesus we can be your reason to boast, even as you are ours.
I will say it again: No one should think that I am a fool. But if you do, then treat me like a fool so that I can also boast a little.
I will boast about this man, but as for myself I will boast only about my weaknesses.
However, if I did want to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I am not going to do it in order to keep anyone from thinking more of me than what he sees and hears about me.
as you hold firmly to the word of life. Then I will be proud when the Messiah returns that I did not run in vain or work hard in vain.
For this is what we boast about: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world with pure motives and godly sincerity, without earthly wisdom but with God's grace especially toward you.
But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.
As surely as the truth of the Messiah is in me, my boasting will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord's authority but like a fool. Since many people boast in a fleshly way, I will do it, too.
So if I boast a little too much about our authority, which the Lord gave us to build you up and not to tear you down, I will not be ashamed of it.
We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.
We are not boasting about work done by others that cannot be evaluated. On the contrary, we cherish the hope that your faith may continue to grow and enlarge our sphere of action among you until it overflows.
I must boast, although it does not do any good. Let's talk about visions and revelations from the Lord.
but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.
