Nevertheless I am sending the brothers in order that my boast about you may not prove vain in this instance; so that, as I kept saying, you may be prepared.

for if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, how shall I, not to say you, be ashamed for having had so little ground to boast of you?

If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.

We, however, not as to the things without measure, will boast ourselves, but, according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned unto us, as a measure - to reach as far as even you!

and we boast not ourselves out of measure in other men's labors. Yea, and we hope, when your faith is increased among you, to be magnified according to our measure more largely;

Unto the regions beyond you, to carry the glad-message: not, within another man's limit, as to the things made ready, to boast ourselves.

Meanwhile. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.

and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

Again, I say - let no one deem me to be, foolish; but, otherwise, at least, as foolish, give me welcome, that, I also, some little, may boast myself.

What I speak, I speak not according to Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of the boast.

Since so many are making worldly boasts, I shall boast, too!

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 boast I must, it shall be concerning my weakness.

I am forced to boast, though it is unprofitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Of such a one I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast except in my weaknesses.

Although in fact, if I should wish to boast, I shall not be foolish, for, the truth, would I speak; but I forbear, lest anyone, unto me, should reckon above what he beholdeth me to be , or heareth from me, - even by the exceeding greatness of the revelations.

And at once he said unto me - Sufficient for thee, is my favour, for, my power, in weakness, is made complete. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may spread a tent over me.

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For by grace ye are saved, through faith: and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not by works, that no one may boast:

Not from works, lest anyone should boast.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

Their [ultimate] end is [spiritual] destruction; their god is their appetite; they boast of what they ought to be ashamed of, and they [constantly] think about worldly things.

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

But, Christ, as, a Son, over his house, - whose house are, we, - if, the freedom of speech and boast of the hope, throughout, firm,we hold fast.

Now let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!

But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

These persons are grumblers, ever complaining about their lot. They live to satisfy their evil passions, their lips boast arrogant things, and they flatter others for personal gain.

Salmon begot Boa of Rachab: Boaz begot Obed of Ruth: Obed begot Jesse: