What are some Bible verses about boasting?

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James 4:16  

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.  
  

Proverbs 27:2  

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.  
  

Jeremiah 9:23  

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,"  
  

Proverbs 27:1  

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.  
  

1 Corinthians 4:7  

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?  
  

Psalm 94:4  

They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.  
  

James 3:5  

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!  
  

Ephesians 2:8\-9  

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.  
  

2 Corinthians 11:30  

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.  
  

1 Corinthians 1:31  

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

Proverbs 25:14  

Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.  
  

Jeremiah 9:23\-24  

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”  
  

Galatians 6:14  

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  
  

James 4:13\-16  

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.  
  

Isaiah 10:15  

Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!  
  

Jeremiah 9:24  

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.  
  

2 Corinthians 10:17  

Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.  
  

Philippians 2:3  

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.  
  

Psalm 34:2  

My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.  
  

Romans 12:3  

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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