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17 Bible Verses About Being Proud of Someone

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  • In 2 Corinthians 7:4, 7:14 and 8:24 and in 1 Thessalonians 2:19, the NIV’s “pride,” “boasting” and “glory” translate kauchesis, boasting or glorying.
  • Proverbs 17:6 runs pride both ways: grandchildren are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
  • The master in Matthew 25:21 and 25:23 says the same “Well done, good and faithful servant” to the servant who gained five bags of gold and to the one who gained two.
  • Philippians 4:1 calls the church Paul’s “joy and crown,” and the next verse pleads with Euodia and Syntyche to agree.
  • In 2 Thessalonians 1:3-4 Paul thanks God for the church’s growing faith and, with “Therefore,” boasts about its perseverance under persecution.

In the Bible, being proud of someone is spoken of as joy in them and as praise said aloud. Paul tells the Corinthians, “I take great pride in you” (2 Corinthians 7:4), and at Jesus’ baptism the voice from heaven says, “with him I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17). Where the NIV has Paul “take great pride” in a church (2 Corinthians 7:4; 2 Corinthians 8:24) or speak of “the crown in which we will glory” (1 Thessalonians 2:19), the…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 2746, καύχησις (kauchesis): boasting, glorying, pride; used of boasting on someone’s behalf in 2 Corinthians 7:4, 7:14 and 8:24, and in “crown of boasting” in 1 Thessalonians 2:19. biblehub.com/greek/2746

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