22 Bible Verses about Paul's Boasting

I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day!

I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overcome with joy in all our afflictions.

For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? Is it not you?

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

For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.

For I know your eagerness, and I brag about you to the Macedonians: “Achaia has been prepared since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

But I sent the brothers so our boasting about you in the matter would not prove empty, and so you would be prepared just as I said.

as you have partially understood us—that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

I repeat: No one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so I too may boast a little.

I will boast about this person, but not about myself, except of my weaknesses.

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

What I say in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but foolishly. Since many boast in an unspiritual way, I will also boast.

For if I boast some more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I am not ashamed.

We, however, will not boast beyond measure but according to the measure of the area of ministry that God has assigned to us, which reaches even to you.

We are not bragging beyond measure about other people’s labors. But we have the hope that as your faith increases, our area of ministry will be greatly enlarged,

If boasting is necessary, I will boast about my weaknesses.

Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.