48 Bible Verses about Boasting

so that, as the Scripture says, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith.

so that no mortal man might ever boast in the presence of God.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!

But, as it is, you boast of your proud pretensions. All such boasting is wicked.

For if I do preach the good news, I have no ground for boasting of it, for I cannot help doing it. Yes, indeed, I am accursed if I do not preach the good news.

"But the man who boasts must boast in the Lord.

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

So let no one boast in men. For everything belongs to you --

I am not going too far in my boasting, and actually boasting of other men's labors, but I am cherishing the hope that your faith may so continue to grow that through you my work within my sphere may be so enlarged as to run over,

Since many boast in accordance with their human nature, I will do it too.

I have to keep on boasting. There is no good to be gotten from it, but I will go on to visions and revelations which the Lord has given me.

But I shall never go too far in my boasting; no, I shall stay within the limits of the sphere which God apportioned me, so as to reach even you.

For who makes you superior? And what do you have that you did not get from someone? But if you got it from someone, why do you boast as though you had not?

It is not the result of what anyone can do, so that no one can boast of it.

You who boast about the law, do you by breaking it dishonor God?

but He said to me, "My spiritual strength is sufficient, for it is only by means of conscious weakness that perfect power is developed."

So, as a Christian, I am proud of the things that I have done for God.

But when I talk in this boastful confidence, I am not talking in accordance with the way the Lord talked, but just as a fool talks.

So you must furnish them, before all the churches, proof of your love and ground for my praising you so highly.

Let me say again that no one must think that I am a fool, but if you do, please treat me like a fool and let me do a little boasting too, as other fools do.

For if he was considered in right standing with God on the condition of what he did, he has something to boast of, but not before God.

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.

you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,

For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.

because everything that is in the world, the things that our lower nature and eyes are longing for, and the proud pretensions of life, do not come from the Father, but from the world;

Indeed, if I have been doing some boasting of you to him, I have never been ashamed of it; but just as all I said to him was true, so now my boasting before Titus has been shown to be true.

Everyone should test his own work until it stands the test, and then he will have ground for boasting with reference to himself alone, and not with reference to someone else.

For if I do boast a little too much about my authority, which the Lord gave me for building you up and not for tearing you down, I shall never have to blush for doing so.

so that I can preach the good news in the regions beyond you, without boasting in another man's sphere of work already done by him.

Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord is willing, we shall live and do this or that."

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?

But the truth of Christ in me, this boasting of mine shall never be stopped in the boundaries of Greece.

which will result in your joy; so that, through union with Christ Jesus, you may have more than sufficient ground for boasting about me, through my being with you again.

Indeed, the very men who let themselves be circumcised do not themselves observe the law. But they simply want you to let yourselves be circumcised, so that they can boast of you as members of their party.

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

On behalf of this man with such an experience I will boast, but on behalf of myself personally I will boast only about my weaknesses.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money,"