48 Bible Verses about Boasting

so that as Scripture says, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

If boast I must, it shall be concerning my weakness.

But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

Proclaiming the gospel gives me no ground of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; woe is me if I preach not the gospel.

Meanwhile. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits,

Since so many are making worldly boasts, I shall boast, too!

I am forced to boast, though it is unprofitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me?? sphere which reaches even to you.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it;

You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

I have then my boast in Christ Jesus concerning the things of God.

What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lord's command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting.

So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you.

I say again, let no one think me a fool. Or, if you must, at least bear with me as a fool, that I, too, may do a little boasting.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world;

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.

I may carry the gospel to countries beyond you; and not be boasting of work made ready to my hand within another man's limit.

You ought instead to say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live and do this or that."

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine shall not be stopped within the boundaries of Greece!

so that you may find me fresh cause of exultation in Christ Jesus, because of my presence among you once more.

Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

Of such a one I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast except in my weaknesses.

Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money,"