Strong's Greek · G2746

καύχησις

kaúchēsis

boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing

Definition

boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense

Derivation

from G2744 (καυχάομαι);

Appears 11 times in Scripture

Romans 3:27

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

2 Corinthians 11:10

As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 8:24

In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.

James 4:16

As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

1 Corinthians 15:31

I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 7:14

Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

2 Corinthians 7:4

Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.

Romans 15:17

Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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