May the Lord cut off ¹  all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts! ² 

They are calloused; ¹  they speak arrogantly. ² 

They spew out threats ¹  and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast. ² 

“It’s worthless! It’s worthless!” ¹  says the buyer, ²  but when he goes on his way, he boasts. ³ 

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated ¹  (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you. ² 

But we will not boast beyond certain limits, ¹  but will confine our boasting ²  according to the limits of the work to which God has appointed us, ³  that reaches even as far as you.

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison ¹  to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

¹ I say to the proud, “Do not be proud,” and to the wicked, “Do not be so confident of victory! ² 

Destructive forces will come against her false prophets; ¹  they will be shown to be fools! ²  Destructive forces will come against her soldiers; they will be filled with terror! ³ 

For if Abraham was declared righteous ¹  by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

So I boast ¹  in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

so that what you can be proud of may increase ¹  because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you. ² 

For this reason ¹  the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. ²  His majestic glory will go up in smoke. ³ 

I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; ¹  I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, ²  my boasting, arrogant ones. ³ 

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers ¹  and humiliates ²  the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men ³  and makes their advice ⁴  seem foolish,

Let each one examine ¹  his own work. Then he can take pride ²  in himself and not compare himself with ³  someone else.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words ¹  they are able to entice, ²  with fleshly desires and with debauchery, ³  people ⁴  who have just escaped ⁵  from those who reside in error. ⁶