Boasting

We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.

Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’

I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.

For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.

But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.

…so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.

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

In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

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

I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

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