1 Timothy 6:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He is puffed up with pride and stupefied with conceit, [although he is] woefully ignorant. He has a morbid fondness for controversy and disputes and strife about words, which result in (produce) envy and jealousy, quarrels and dissension, abuse and insults and slander, and base suspicions,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Common English Bible

⁴ that person is conceited. They don’t understand anything but have a sick obsession with debates and arguments. This creates jealousy, conflict, verbal abuse, and evil suspicions.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

1 Timothy 6:4 Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

Some pretend to be rich yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor yet have great wealth.

Proverbs 25:14

Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of a gift never given.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Isaiah 58:4

You fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high.

Acts 15:2

And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to discuss this question with the apostles and the elders.

Acts 18:15

but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I do not wish to be a judge of these matters.”

Acts 8:9

Now a certain man named Simon had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he was someone great.

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be arrogant, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are.

Romans 13:13

let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Romans 14:1

Welcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.

Romans 2:8

while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious—we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you or preys upon you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or gives you a slap in the face.

Galatians 5:15

If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

Philippians 1:15

Some proclaim Christ from envy and rivalry but others from goodwill.

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmuring and arguing,

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.

Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, initiatory visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.

1 Timothy 1:4

and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than the divine training that is known by faith.

1 Timothy 1:7

desiring to be teachers of the law without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions.

1 Timothy 3:6

He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind them of this, and warn them before the Lord that they are to avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who are listening.

2 Timothy 2:23

Have nothing to do with stupid and senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Titus 3:9

But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:18

For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:10

But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts; their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.