Tota Scriptura

Boasting

Sinful pride and boasting

Isa 47:8; Zep 2:15; 1Co 5:6; 2Co 5:12; 11:12–13; Gal 6:13; Jas 4:16

Boasting ruled out by fallenness, sin

Main topic: Total depravity

Ro 2:17–24; Gal 6:3

Boasting ruled out by grace

Main topic: Gospel

Ro 3:27; 4:2–3; 1Co 1:28–29; 3:21–23; 4:7; Eph 2:9

Boasting ruled out by creatureliness

Jas 4:13–16

Boasting in God, Christ, salvation

Ps 34:1–3; Jer 9:23–24; Ro 5:2, 11; 15:17–18; 1Co 1:31; 2Co 1:12; 10:7–18; Gal 6:14; Php 3:3; Heb 3:6; Jas 1:9

Boasting in suffering, weakness, humiliation

Ro 5:3; 2Co 11:16–18, 21, 29–30; 12:1–10; Jas 1:10

Christians boast in one another

1Co 15:31; 2Co 1:14; 5:12; 7:4, 13–16; 8:24; 9:1–3; Php 1:26; 1Th 2:19–20

Sincere, valid boasting in oneself?

Gal 6:4; Php 2:16 but see Ro 15:17–18; 1Co 15:10; 2Co 1:12; Php 2:13

Categories: Moral theology, Anthropology, Hamartiology

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