'Boasting' in the Bible

Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your boasting now with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Is this not the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them!”

You said, ‘Behold, you have defeated Edom.’ And your heart has become proud in boasting. Now stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you, even you, would fall and Judah with you?”

Behold, I am against those who have prophesied false dreams,” declares the Lord, “and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them or command them, nor do they furnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares the Lord.

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.

But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;

not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

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

But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.

What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

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