5 Bible Verses about Proud People

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

I have written somewhat to the church; but Diotrephes, who love to take the lead among them, does not receive me.

Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

And he was permitted to utter loud boasts and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty-two months.