Boasting is Par for the Course

The word aladzon means boaster, which is how it is rendered in Romans 1:30, in the midst of another Pauline list of sins, including, but not limited to, “backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parent . . .” And in the perilous times, Paul says, “men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers . . .” (2 Tim. 3:2). Vainglory always seeks to puff itself — but let him who wants to boast, boast in the Lord.