1 Corinthians 4:18-19
4:18 Some have become arrogant,
as if I were not coming to you.
4:19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out not only the talk of these arrogant people, but also their power.
1 Corinthians 3:21
3:21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals!
For everything belongs to you,
1 Corinthians 5:2
5:2 And you are proud!
Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this
from among you?
1 Corinthians 5:6
5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?
1 Corinthians 8:1
Food Sacrificed to Idols
8:1 With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 13:4
13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
Numbers 11:28-29
11:28 Joshua son of Nun, the servant
of Moses, one of his choice young men,
said,
“My lord Moses, stop them!”
11:29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me?
I wish that
all the
Lord’s people were prophets, that the
Lord would put his Spirit on them!”
John 3:26-27
3:26 So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River,
about whom you testified – see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”
3:27 John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
Colossians 2:18
2:18 Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths
about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.