'Boast' in the Bible

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

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

Therefore I have reason to boast in Christ Jesus regarding what pertains to God.

so that no one can boast in His presence.

in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

So no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours—

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?

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!

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because an obligation is placed on me. And woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

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.

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 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.

So the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

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.

Since many boast in an unspiritual way, I will also boast.

I say this to our shame: We have been weak.But in whatever anyone dares to boast—I am talking foolishly—I also dare:

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.

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,

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.

For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves; however, they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

not from works, so that no one can boast.

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 we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh—

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

The brother of humble circumstances should boast in his exaltation,

but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.