In fact, the verse that comes to mind is Galatians 1.10.
You don't have to turn there.
But the apostle Paul said, "For do I now persuade men or God?"
You know, who are we trying to persuade?
Who are we trying to prove something to?
Is it to God, or is it to the people around us?
Pride wants to prove it to the people around us.
You know, humility knows that God already
knows everything anyway.
We don't need to prove anything.
We just want to make sure that we're pleasing to God,
and it doesn't matter what people think of us.
So he says, "Do I now persuade men or God?
Or do I seek to please men?
For if I yet pleased men, I should not
be the servant of Christ."
And so we see that it's more important for us
to worry about pleasing God than pleasing men.
And the only reason why we want to persuade men
and prove things to the people around us
is just simply for our own pride.
That's why the Bible says of the devil,
he is the king over all the children of pride.
That's who he has the mastery of,
those who have a lot of pride.