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And Jehovah said to Gideon, The people with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel boast themselves against Me, saying, My own hand has saved me.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsNot Mearmygideon

And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Do not let him who girds on boast himself like the one who loosens his armor.

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourSelf ConfidenceSuperiorityArrogance, Characterizes The WickedFalse ConfidenceBoasting

You have said, Lo, I have stricken the Edomites, and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle to your hurt, so that you should fall, you and Judah with you?

Verse ConceptsSuccessArrogance, Characterizes The WickedTwelve Beings

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.

Verse ConceptsBoasting, CondemnedPride, Results OfSpiritual MalnutritionStrength, HumanGoodnessBoastingheroes

I said to the proud, Do not boast; and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn;

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedBoastingarrogance

All those who serve graven images are ashamed, those who boast themselves in idols; all gods bow down before Him.

Verse ConceptsFate Of IdolatersShame Of IdolatryWorship God!

Shall the axe boast itself against him who chops with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wave those who lift itself up! As if a staff could raise what is not wood!

Verse ConceptsAxesSelf ConfidenceToolsWoodInfidelity To GodSawsClubsDo Not Be ProudScoffers

I know his wrath, says Jehovah, it is not so; his boast, but they have not done so.

do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you.

Verse ConceptsDo Not Be ProudOther SupportingOlive TreesSupportBoasting

For I know your eagerness, of which I boast to Macedonia on your behalf, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has aroused the greater number.

Verse ConceptsEnthusiasmAttitudes, to other peopleReadinessProvokingFervourZealousness, Examples OfPaul's BoastingPeople Willing

But we will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure distributed to us, to reach even to you.

Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoastinglimitationsmeasurement

to preach the gospel in that beyond you, and not to boast in another's rule in things made ready.

Verse ConceptsBoasting ExcludedThe Gospel WorldwideBoastingpreaching

But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Verse ConceptsUnceasingAlways Being ActivePersistencerecognition

Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePaul's BoastingBoasting

Indeed, it is not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceVisions From GodPaul's BoastingBoasting

I will glory of such a one, yet I will not boast on my behalf, except in my weaknesses.

Verse ConceptsBoasting ExcludedPaul's BoastingIdentityBoasting

For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as being beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting

For they themselves, having been circumcised, do not even keep the Law, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

Verse ConceptsStrength, HumanNecessity Of CircumcisionThey Do Not Keep CommandsBoasting