22 Bible Verses about Paul's Boasting
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I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is not it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
so that we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
But I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
That which I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
It is necessary to boast, though it is not profitable. But I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
