'Proud' in the Bible
For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.
I have great confidence in you. I am very proud of you. I am very much encouraged. I am overjoyed in all our troubles.
Therefore, show these men, in the sight of the churches, the proof of your love and our reason for being proud of you.
and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah.
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;