'Boasting' in the Bible

While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors [of new forms] of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents,

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

For if Abraham was justified [that is, acquitted from the guilt of his sins] by works [those things he did that were good], he has something to boast about, but not before God.

And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,