καυχάομαι kaucháomai

Meaning

to vaunt (in a good or a bad sense)

In the King James Version: (make) boast, glory, joy, rejoice

Derivation: from some (obsolete) base akin to that of (to boast) and G2172 (εὔχομαι);

Where it is used

• Romans 2:17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
• Romans 2:23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
• Romans 5:2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
• Romans 5:3 Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
• Romans 5:11 Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
• 1 Corinthians 1:29 so that no one may boast in His presence.
• 1 Corinthians 1:31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
• 1 Corinthians 3:21 Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
• 1 Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
• 1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
• 2 Corinthians 5:12 We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.
• 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 9:2 For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.
• 2 Corinthians 10:8 For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.
• 2 Corinthians 10:13 We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.
• 2 Corinthians 10:15 Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,
• 2 Corinthians 10:16 so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.
• 2 Corinthians 10:17 Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
• 2 Corinthians 11:12 But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.
• 2 Corinthians 11:16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
• 2 Corinthians 11:18 Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
• 2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
• 2 Corinthians 12:1 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
• 2 Corinthians 12:5 I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.
• 2 Corinthians 12:6 Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,
• 2 Corinthians 12:9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• 2 Corinthians 12:11 I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
• Galatians 6:13 For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
• Galatians 6:14 But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Ephesians 2:9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
• Philippians 3:3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• James 1:9 The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
• James 4:16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.