Boast

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.

All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.

…do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

…so that no one may boast in His presence.

Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.

Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

…as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.

…as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.

For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.

Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,

Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.

I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.

I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.

Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

…not by works, so that no one can boast.

…as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.

But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.