slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

¹ I say to the proud, “Do not be proud,” and to the wicked, “Do not be so confident of victory! ² 

Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; ¹  you hate ²  all who behave wickedly. ³ 

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

What I am saying with this boastful confidence ¹  I do not say the way the Lord would. ²  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

For people ¹  will be lovers of themselves, ²  lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

“Then I kept on watching because of the arrogant words of the horn that was speaking. I was watching ¹  until the beast was killed and its body destroyed and thrown into ²  the flaming fire.

The beast ¹  was given a mouth speaking proud words ²  and blasphemies, and he was permitted ³  to exercise ruling authority ⁴  for forty-two months.

May the Lord cut off ¹  all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts! ² 

For I envied those who are proud, as I observed ¹  the prosperity ²  of the wicked.

The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; ¹  whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction. ² 

Let us not become conceited, ¹  provoking ²  one another, being jealous ³  of one another.

We have heard about Moab’s pride, their great arrogance, their boasting, pride, and excess. ¹  But their boastful claims are empty! ² 

Let each one examine ¹  his own work. Then he can take pride ²  in himself and not compare himself with ³  someone else.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words ¹  they are able to entice, ²  with fleshly desires and with debauchery, ³  people ⁴  who have just escaped ⁵  from those who reside in error. ⁶ 

These people are grumblers and ¹  fault-finders who go ²  wherever their desires lead them, ³  and they give bombastic speeches, ⁴  enchanting folks ⁵  for their own gain. ⁶ 

The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. ¹  Israel might brag, ²  ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’ ³ 

like heat ¹  in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. ²  Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, ³  so he causes the song of tyrants to cease. ⁴ 

Why do you brag about your great power? Your power is ebbing away, ¹  you rebellious people of Ammon, ²  who trust in your riches and say, ‘Who would dare to attack us?’