'Boasting' in the Bible

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors [of new forms] of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents,

Then what becomes of [our] boasting? It is excluded [entirely ruled out, banished]. On what principle? On [the principle of good] works? No, but on the principle of faith.

For if Abraham was justified [that is, acquitted from the guilt of his sins] by works [those things he did that were good], he has something to boast about, but not before God.

So let no one boast in men [about their wisdom, or of having this or that one as a leader]. For all things are yours,

Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven ferments the whole batch [of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church]?

For if I have boasted to him at all concerning you, I was not disappointed. But just as everything we ever said to you was true, so our boasting [about you] to Titus has proved true also.

Therefore, show these men, in the sight of the churches, the proof of your love and our reason for being proud of you.

What I say in this confident boasting, I say not as the Lord would [with His authority], but foolishly.

But as it is, you boast [vainly] in your pretension and arrogance. All such boasting is evil.