slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

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

For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Paul's Change of Plans

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

just as you did partially understand us—that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.

We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.

For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.

So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.

But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.

For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.

But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.

We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,

so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence.

“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”