'Boasting' in the Bible
Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.
For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.
Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.
But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;
not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.
What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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