27 Bible Verses About Boasting

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.