1 Timothy 6:4

World English Bible (2000)

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

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  • 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
  • 1 Tim 1:7 : 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
  • Titus 3:9 : 9 but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
  • Acts 15:2 : 2 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
  • Acts 18:15 : 15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
  • Rom 14:1 : 1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
  • 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
  • 1 Cor 11:16 : 16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.
  • 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.
  • Gal 5:20-21 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
  • Phil 2:14 : 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
  • Jas 2:14-18 : 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? 15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. 18 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
  • Jas 4:1-2 : 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
  • Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.
  • Prov 13:7 : 7 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
  • Prov 25:14 : 14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Isa 58:4 : 4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
  • Acts 8:9 : 9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
  • Acts 8:21-23 : 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn't right before God. 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."

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