Kauchēsis καύχησις

Kauchēsis (Greek καύχησις, Strong's G2746) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “pride”. It occurs 12 times in 12 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Kauchēsis, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Romans

• Romans 3:27
  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
• Romans 15:17
  I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 15:31
  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 1:12
  For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.And 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 boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.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
  For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.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
  Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.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
  Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.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 the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.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
  That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

1 Thessalonians

• 1 Thessalonians 2:19
  For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?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

• James 4:16
  But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).