48 Bible Verses about Boasting

so that, as it is written, let him who boasts boast of the Lord.

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

that no person may boast in the sight of God.

If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer!

But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.

What I am proud of is not the mere preaching of the gospel; that I am constrained to do. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

However, let him who boasts boast of the Lord;

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

So you must not boast about men. For all belongs to you;

I do not boast beyond my limits in a sphere where other men have done the work; my hope rather is that the growth of your faith will allow me to enlarge the range of my appointed sphere

Since many boast on the score of the flesh, I will do the same.)

There is nothing to be gained by this sort of thing, but as I am obliged to boast, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

and so my boasting never goes beyond the limit ??it is determined by the limits of the sphere marked out for me by God. That sphere stretches to include yourselves;

Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given?

not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

You pride yourself on the Law; do you dishonour God by your breaches of the Law?

but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

Now in Christ Jesus I can be proud of my work for God.

(What I am now going to say is not inspired by the Lord: I am in the role of a 'fool,' now, on this business of boasting.

So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.

I repeat, no one is to think me a fool; but even so, pray bear with me, fool as I am, that I may have my little boast as well as others!

This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

Only, I have not availed myself of any of these rights, and I am not writing in order to secure any such provision for myself. I would die sooner than let anyone deprive me of this, my source of pride.

do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem.

If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God,

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;

I told him of my pride in you, and I have not been disappointed. No, just as all I have had to say to you has been true, so all I said about you to Titus, all my pride in you, has also proved true.

let everyone bring his own work to the test ??then he will have something to boast about on his own account, and not in comparison with his fellows.

Even supposing I were to boast somewhat freely of my authority (and the Lord gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you), I would feel quite justified.

and preach the gospel in the lands that lie beyond you, instead of boasting within another's province over work that is already done.

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

By the truth of Christ within me, I am going to make this my pride and boast unchecked throughout the regions of Achaia!

Thus you will have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus over me ??over my return to you.

Why, even the circumcision party do not observe the Law themselves! They merely want you to get circumcised, so as to boast over your flesh!

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

Of an experience like that I am prepared to boast, but not of myself personally ??not except as regards my weaknesses.

Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.