5 Bible Verses about Proud People

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

I wrote to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have preeminence among them, receives us not.

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I desire, and that I, too, should be found by you such as ye do not desire; lest, by any means, there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given him to work forty-two months.