1 Timothy 6:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

Proverbs 25:14

As clouds and wind without rain, So is he that boasteth himself of his gifts falsely.

Proverbs 26:12

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Isaiah 58:4

Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

Acts 15:2

And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, the brethren appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Acts 18:15

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

Acts 8:9

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, which beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

Romans 14:1

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not to doubtful disputations.

Romans 2:8

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?

2 Corinthians 11:20

For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.

Galatians 5:15

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:3

For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Philippians 1:15

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmurings and disputings;

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

Colossians 2:18

Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

1 Timothy 1:4

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, the which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

1 Timothy 1:7

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

1 Timothy 3:6

not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

2 Timothy 2:14

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

Titus 3:9

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

Jude 1:10

But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling words), shewing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

Revelation 3:17

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked: