Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

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.

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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.

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn “not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.