Quotes about Boasting

If we truly believe that God appreciates our service, we can stop boasting and start encouraging. When we boast, we use people for appreciation. When our appreciation comes from God, we can start loving people, sharing the ways both God and we appreciate them. Paul demonstrated this by encouraging others, •

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

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

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.