Boasting
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Boasting’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
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As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
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Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
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Isaiah 10:15 OT
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.
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Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
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Romans 1:30 NT
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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James 3:5 NT
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
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James 4:16 NT
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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Psalms 52:1 OT
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
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Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and…
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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.”
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Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
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For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings? Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?” As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of…
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Luke 10:17 NT
The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
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Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches— none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough, that he…
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Psalms 94:4 OT
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
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Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God. For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify…
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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, don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is…
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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. For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is…
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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.
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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?
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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. But we will not…
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for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
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not of works, that no one would boast.