boasting

¹⁶But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.

²Let another praise you, and not your own mouth: an outsider, and not your own lips.

²³Thus says the Lord: “The wise man should not glory in his wisdom, and the strong man should not glory in his strength, and the rich man should not glory in his riches.

¹And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. ²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, ³without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, ⁴traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, ⁵even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.

¹Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what the future day may bring.

⁷For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

³⁰If it is necessary to glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weaknesses.

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.

⁴How long will they utter and speak iniquity? How long will all who work injustice speak out?

¹“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven. ²Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. ³But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴so that your almsgiving may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you. ⁵And when you pray, you should not be like the hypocrites, who love standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets to pray, so that they may be seen by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. ⁶But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. ⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.

⁵So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest.

³¹And so, in the same way, it was written: “Whoever glories, should glory in the Lord.”

⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.

¹²For we would not dare to interpose or compare ourselves with certain ones who commend themselves. But we measure ourselves by ourselves, and we compare ourselves with ourselves. ¹³Thus, we will not glory beyond our measure, but rather according to the measure of the limit which God has measured out to us, a measure which extends even to you. ¹⁴For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we are not able to reach as far as you are able. For we have gone even as far as you have in the Gospel of Christ. ¹⁵We are not glorying immeasurably over the labors of others. Instead, we hold on to the hope of your growing faith, so as to be magnified in you, according to our own limits, but in abundance, ¹⁶and even so as to evangelize in those places that are beyond you, not in order to glory in the measure of others, but rather in those things which have already been prepared. ¹⁷But whoever glories, let him glory in the Lord.

¹⁴But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁴A man who boasts and does not fulfill his promises is like clouds and wind, when rain does not follow.