48 Bible Verses about Boasting

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Romans 3:27

Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

James 4:16

But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

2 Corinthians 10:15

I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits,

2 Corinthians 11:18

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

2 Corinthians 12:1

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

2 Corinthians 10:13

I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me?? sphere which reaches even to you.

Romans 2:23

You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

2 Corinthians 11:17

What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lord's command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting.

2 Corinthians 8:24

So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you.

2 Corinthians 11:16

I say again, let no one think me a fool. Or, if you must, at least bear with me as a fool, that I, too, may do a little boasting.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

Romans 11:18

or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

Romans 2:17

Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

2 Corinthians 7:14

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

2 Corinthians 10:16

I may carry the gospel to countries beyond you; and not be boasting of work made ready to my hand within another man's limit.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

2 Corinthians 11:10

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine shall not be stopped within the boundaries of Greece!

Philippians 1:26

so that you may find me fresh cause of exultation in Christ Jesus, because of my presence among you once more.

Galatians 6:13

Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

2 Corinthians 12:5

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

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Boasting » Boasting, the folly of

Boasting » Boasting in God

Romans 2:17

Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

Boasting » Spiritual

Romans 11:17-21

Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches; or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you. "Branches have been broken off," you say, "that I might be grafted in." read more.
True, through their unbelief they were broken off, and by your faith you stand. Do not be puffed up, but fear; for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

1 Corinthians 1:17-31

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing. For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God. For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound. read more.
Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world? For when, in the wisdom of God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe. Jews continue to ask for miracles and Greeks are ever wanting philosophy, but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness, but to those who are the called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called. No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength. The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are; so that no mortal man should glory in his presence. It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that as Scripture says, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

Boasting » What not to boast of

James 4:13-16

Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money," when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing. You ought instead to say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live and do this or that." read more.
But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

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Topics on Boasting

Boasting, Foolish

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

Justification Excluding Boasting

Romans 3:27-28

Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

Paul's Boasting

1 Corinthians 15:31

Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Salvation, Boasting Impossible

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift.

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