1 Timothy 6:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

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  • 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;
  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --
  • 1 Tim 1:7 : 7 willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,
  • Titus 3:9 : 9 and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.
  • Acts 15:2 : 2 there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
  • Acts 18:15 : 15 but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves `to it', for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,'
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
  • Rom 14:1 : 1 And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,
  • 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; 2 and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;
  • 1 Cor 11:16 : 16 and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.
  • 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe `it',
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
  • Gal 5:20-21 : 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 for if any one doth think `himself' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
  • Phil 2:14 : 14 All things do without murmurings and reasonings,
  • Col 2:18 : 18 let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and `in' worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- `the day doth not come'.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
  • Jas 2:14-18 : 14 What `is' the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? 15 and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, 16 and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit? 17 so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself. 18 But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:
  • Jas 4:1-2 : 1 Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? 2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;
  • Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' 6 and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, 2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;
  • Prov 13:7 : 7 There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.
  • Prov 25:14 : 14 Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, `Is' a man boasting himself in a false gift.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
  • Isa 58:4 : 4 Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as `to'-day, To sound in the high place your voice.
  • Acts 8:9 : 9 And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,
  • Acts 8:21-23 : 21 thou hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for thy heart is not right before God; 22 reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee, 23 for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'

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  • 5wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

  • 23and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

  • 3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

  • 9and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

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    14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

    15be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

    16and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

    17and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

  • Jas 3:14-16
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    14and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

    15this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

    16for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    6from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

    7willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

  • 16These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

  • 6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

  • 10and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;

  • Gal 6:3-4
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    3for if any one doth think `himself' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

    4and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

  • 6not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

  • 2 Tim 3:6-7
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    6for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

    7always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

  • 26let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

  • 4nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

  • 2and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;

  • 20O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

    16the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

  • 16and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

  • 20for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

  • 18for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

  • 10A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled `is' wisdom.

  • 4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • 5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

  • Titus 1:9-10
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    9holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

    10for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

  • 3for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

  • 11having known that he hath been subverted who `is' such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.

  • 10and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

  • 16as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

  • 6Not good `is' your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

  • 6Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

  • 13and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

  • 29having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

  • 2and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

  • 20an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

  • 18let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and `in' worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

  • 3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?

  • 38and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

  • 23which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

  • 14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;