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Bible Verses About Boasting
Find Bible verses about boasting — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about boasting?
The Bible addresses boasting with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Romans 15:17
“I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.”
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1 Corinthians 1:31
“that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."”
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2 Corinthians 11:30
“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.”
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Galatians 6:14
“But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”
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1 Corinthians 1:29
“that no flesh should boast before God.”
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1 Corinthians 5:6
“Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?”
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.”
Genesis 4:24
“If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."”
James 4:16
“But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.”
Genesis 4:23
“Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.”
2 Kings 19:23
“By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, 'With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down it...”
2 Corinthians 11:10
“As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.”
Romans 4:2
“For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.”
2 Kings 19:24
“I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'”
2 Corinthians 1:14
“as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.”
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2 Corinthians 9:3 — “But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, th...”
Psalms 44:8 — “In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah....”
Isaiah 37:25 — “I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."...”
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