BOASTING

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• 1 Kings 20:10

  Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”

• 2 Kings 18:19

  Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

• Psalms 49:6

  Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches —

• Psalms 49:7

  none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

• Psalms 49:8

  For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

• Psalms 49:9

  that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

• Psalms 52:1

  For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

• Psalms 94:4

  They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

• Proverbs 20:14

  “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

• Proverbs 25:14

  As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

• Proverbs 27:1

  Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

• Isaiah 10:8

  For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

• Isaiah 10:9

  Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

• Isaiah 10:10

  As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

• Isaiah 10:11

  shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

• Isaiah 10:12

  Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

• Isaiah 10:13

  For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

• Isaiah 10:14

  My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

• Isaiah 10:15

  Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

• Jeremiah 9:23

  Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

• Luke 10:17

  The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

• Luke 10:20

  Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

• Romans 1:30

  backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

• Romans 3:1

  Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

• Romans 3:2

  Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

• Romans 3:3

  For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

• Romans 3:4

  May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

• Romans 3:5

  But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

• Romans 3:6

  May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

• Romans 3:7

  For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

• Romans 3:8

  Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

• Romans 3:9

  What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

• Romans 3:10

  As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

• Romans 3:11

  There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

• Romans 3:12

  They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

• Romans 3:13

  “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;

• Romans 3:14

  “whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

• Romans 3:15

  “Their feet are swift to shed blood.

• Romans 3:16

  Destruction and misery are in their ways.

• Romans 3:17

  The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

• Romans 3:18

  “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

• Romans 3:19

  Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

• Romans 3:20

  Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

• Romans 3:21

  But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

• Romans 3:22

  even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

• Romans 3:23

  for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

• Romans 3:24

  being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

• Romans 3:25

  whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

• Romans 3:26

  to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

• Romans 3:27

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

• Romans 3:28

  We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

• Romans 3:29

  Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

• Romans 3:30

  since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

• Romans 3:31

  Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

• Romans 11:17

  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

• Romans 11:18

  don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

• Romans 11:19

  You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

• Romans 11:20

  True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

• Romans 11:21

  for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

• 1 Corinthians 1:17

  For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News — not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

• 1 Corinthians 1:18

  For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

• 1 Corinthians 1:19

  For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

• 1 Corinthians 1:20

  Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

• 1 Corinthians 1:21

  For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

• 1 Corinthians 1:22

  For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

• 1 Corinthians 1:23

  but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

• 1 Corinthians 1:24

  but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

• 1 Corinthians 1:25

  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

• 1 Corinthians 1:26

  For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

• 1 Corinthians 1:27

  but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

• 1 Corinthians 1:28

  and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

• 1 Corinthians 1:29

  that no flesh should boast before God.

• 1 Corinthians 1:30

  Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

• 1 Corinthians 1:31

  that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

• 1 Corinthians 4:6

  Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

• 1 Corinthians 4:7

  For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

• 2 Corinthians 10:12

  For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

• 2 Corinthians 10:13

  But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

• 2 Corinthians 10:14

  For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

• 2 Corinthians 10:15

  not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

• 2 Corinthians 10:16

  so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

• 2 Corinthians 10:17

  But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

• 2 Corinthians 10:18

  For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

• Ephesians 2:8

  for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

• Ephesians 2:9

  not of works, that no one would boast.

• James 3:5

  So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

• James 4:16

  But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.