James 4:16
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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- 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
- Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
- Isa 47:10 : 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
- Ps 52:1 : 1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.
- Ps 52:7 : 7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
- Prov 25:14 : 14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
- Prov 27:1 : 1 Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring forth.
- Isa 47:7-8 : 7 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it. 8 "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
- 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 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? 8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
- Rev 18:7 : 7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'
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