But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord. ¹ 

so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” ¹ 

Since many ¹  are boasting according to human standards, ²  I too will boast.

If I must boast, ¹  I will boast about the things that show my weakness. ² 

so that no one can boast in his presence.

it is not from ¹  works, so that no one can boast. ² 

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

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law ¹  and boast of your relationship to God ² 

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! ¹  For everything belongs to you,

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

It is necessary to go on boasting. ¹  Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

Now the believer ¹  of humble means ²  should take pride ³  in his high position. ⁴ 

But as it is, ¹  you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Not ¹  only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice ¹  in the hope of God’s glory.

Not ¹  only this, but we also rejoice ²  in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, ¹  but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

We are not trying to commend ¹  ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, ²  so that you may be able to answer those who take pride ³  in outward appearance ⁴  and not in what is in the heart.