But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
The verse belongs to a rebuke of strife and contention arising within the professed people of God, where personal pride disrupts fellowship. Proud boasting is itself evil, and taking pleasure and triumph in such boasting is likewise evil. It therefore warns against justifying and holding to a hasty, harsh course of action once taken, rather than humbly acknowledging fault and confessing wrong. The misuse of the tongue involved in such boasting and self-defense is not a light matter, for its influence and results reach into eternity.
The verse belongs to a rebuke of strife and contention arising within the professed people of God, where personal pride disrupts fellowship. Proud boasting is itself evil, and taking pleasure and triumph in such boasting is likewise evil. It therefore warns against justifying and holding to a hasty, harsh course of action once taken, rather than humbly acknowledging fault and confessing wrong. The misuse of the tongue involved in such boasting and self-defense is not a light matter, for its influence and results reach into eternity.