'Boasting' in the Bible

While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,

Where then is there room for your boasting? It is for ever shut out. On what principle? On the ground of merit? No, but on the ground of faith.

to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.

It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?

For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.

just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.

We are not again commending ourselves to your favour, but are furnishing you with a ground of boasting on our behalf, so that you may have a reply ready for those with whom superficial appearances are everything and sincerity of heart counts for nothing.

For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the truth.

Exhibit therefore to the Churches a proof of your love, and a justification of our boasting to these brethren about you.

We, however, will not exceed due limits in our boasting, but will keep within the limits of the sphere which God has assigned to us as a limit, which reaches even to you.

and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you, not boasting in another man's sphere about work already done by him.

I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me.

Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.

What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.

But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.