48 Bible Verses about Boasting

that, as it is written: He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

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

that no flesh should glory in his presence.

If I must boast, I will boast in my infirmities.

But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.

For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.

But let him that boasts, boast in the Lord:

But may I never boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Therefore, let no one glory in men; for all things are yours,

not boasting ourselves in the labors of others in regions not measured off to us, but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be magnified among you abundantly, according to our line,

Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

To boast is not suitable for me; I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord. -

But we will not boast ourselves with respect to regions not measured to us; but according to the measure of the line which God, who measures, has appointed for us to reach even to you.

For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?

not by works, lest any one should boast.

You who make your boast in the law, do you, by transgressing the law, dishonor God?

and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon me.

I have, therefore, cause to glory in Christ Jesus in things that pertain to God.

What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

Therefore, give to them, in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our boasting of you.

I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.

For if Abraham was. justified by works, he has cause for boasting, but not before God.

holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you.

But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth:

but let each one prove his own work, and then he will have cause to boast with respect to him self only, and not with respect to another:

For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed:

so as to preach the gospel in regions beyond you, and not to boast in regions made ready under another man's line.

Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be silenced, in my case, in the regions of Achaia.

that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may be come more abundant through me by my being present among you again.

For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.

Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain;