Gloating

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown; — read the full passage →

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches;

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: — read the full passage →

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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?

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

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

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

not of works, that no one would boast.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Destruction and misery are in their ways.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”