'Boast' in the Bible
For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.
For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.
For if I boast some more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I am not ashamed.
We, however, will not boast beyond measure but according to the measure of the area of ministry that God has assigned to us, which reaches even to you.
So the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.
I repeat: No one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so I too may boast a little.
Since many boast in an unspiritual way, I will also boast.
I say this to our shame: We have been weak.But in whatever anyone dares to boast—I am talking foolishly—I also dare:
If boasting is necessary, I will boast about my weaknesses.
Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I will boast about this person, but not about myself, except of my weaknesses.
For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.
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- Blow (142 instances)
- Boast (114 instances)
- Boasting (58 instances)
- Brag (17 instances)
- Crack (10 instances)
- Flourish (32 instances)
- Sport (101 instances)
- Vaunt (5 instances)
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