so that no flesh should boast before God.

that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours.

Now I have applied these things [that is, the analogies about factions] to myself and Apollos for your benefit, believers, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written [in Scripture], so that none of you will become arrogant and boast in favor of one [minister or teacher] against the other.

For who regards you as superior or what sets you apart as special? What do you have that you did not receive [from another]? And if in fact you received it [from God or someone else], why do you boast as if you had not received it [but had gained it by yourself]?

Some make their boast as if I would not come to you.

Unseemly, is your boast! Know ye not that, a little leaven, doth leaven, the whole of the lump?

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

And, though I morsel out all my goods, - and though I deliver up my body, that I may boast, and have not, love, I am profited, nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

I face death every day, I assure you brothers, as surely as I boast of [fellowship with] you in Christ Jesus our Lord.