1 Timothy 6:4

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he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

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  • 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.
  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Dealing with False Teachers Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.
  • 1 Tim 1:7 : 7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,
  • Titus 3:9 : 9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.
  • Acts 15:2 : 2 When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 Because you say,“I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,
  • Acts 18:15 : 15 but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
  • Rom 14:1 : 1 Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.
  • 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.
  • 1 Cor 11:16 : 16 If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
  • 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
  • Gal 5:20-21 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
  • Phil 2:14 : 14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one who delights in false 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.
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple, displaying himself as God.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
  • Jas 2:14-18 : 14 Faith and Works Together What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself. 18 But someone will say,“You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.
  • Jas 4:1-2 : 1 Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? 2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;
  • Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”? 6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.
  • Prov 13:7 : 7 There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.
  • Prov 25:14 : 14 Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 You have seen a man wise in his own opinion– there is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Isa 58:4 : 4 Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.
  • Acts 8:9 : 9 Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.
  • Acts 8:21-23 : 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God! 22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart. 23 For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”

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    14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

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    10But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

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    6For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

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    26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

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    2If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

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    20Conclusion O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called“knowledge.”

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    14and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.