καύχησις kaúchēsis

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing

Derivation: from G2744 (καυχάομαι);

Where it is used

• Romans 3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
• Romans 15:17 Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.
• 1 Corinthians 15:31 I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 2 Corinthians 9:4 Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
• 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 11:17 In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
• 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?
• James 4:16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.