1 Timothy 6:4

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

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

One is like the rich, though he has nothing. And another is like the poor, though he has many riches.

Proverbs 25:14

A man who boasts and does not fulfill his promises is like clouds and wind, when rain does not follow.

Proverbs 26:12

Have you seen a man who seems wise to himself? There will be greater hope held for the unwise than for him.

Isaiah 58:4

Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.

Acts 15:2

Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas made no small uprising against them, they decided that Paul and Barnabas, and some from the opposing side, should go up to the Apostles and priests in Jerusalem concerning this question.

Acts 18:15

Yet if truly these are questions about a word and names and your law, you should see to it yourselves. I will not be the judge of such things."

Acts 8:9

Therefore, there was great gladness in that city. Now there was a certain man named Simon, who formerly had been a magician in that city, seducing the people of Samaria, claiming himself to be someone great.

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.

Romans 14:1

But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas.

Romans 2:8

But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation.

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone has a mind to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor does the Church of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

First of all, indeed, I hear that when you assemble together in the church, there are schisms among you. And I believe this, in part.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, so that he may be truly wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

And since there is still envy and contention among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking according to man?

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you permit it when someone guides you into servitude, even if he devours you, even if he takes from you, even if he is extolled, even if he strikes you repeatedly on the face.

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not consumed by one another!

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become desirous of empty glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone considers himself to be something, though he may be nothing, he deceives himself.

Philippians 1:15

Certainly, some do so even because of envy and contention; and others, too, do so because of a good will to preach Christ.

Philippians 2:14

And do everything without murmuring or hesitation.

Philippians 2:3

Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one seduce you, preferring base things and a religion of Angels, walking according to what he has not seen, being vainly inflated by the sensations of his flesh,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who is an adversary to, and who is lifted up above, all that is called God or that is worshipped, so much so that he sits in the temple of God, presenting himself as if he were God.

1 Timothy 1:4

against those who have been paying attention to fables and endless genealogies. These things present questions as if they were greater than the edification that is of God, which is in faith.

1 Timothy 1:7

desiring to be teachers of the law, but understanding neither the things that they themselves are saying, nor what they are affirming about these things.

1 Timothy 3:6

He must not be a new convert, lest, being elated by pride, he may fall under the sentence of the devil.

2 Timothy 2:14

Insist on these things, testifying before the Lord. Do not be contentious about words, for this is useful for nothing but the subversion of listeners.

2 Timothy 2:23

But avoid foolish and undisciplined questions, for you know that these produce strife.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God,

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, as well as arguments against the law. For these are useless and empty.

James 1:19

You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

2 Peter 2:12

Yet truly, these others, like irrational beasts, naturally fall into traps and into ruin by blaspheming whatever they do not understand, and so they shall perish in their corruption,

2 Peter 2:18

For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,

Jude 1:10

But these men certainly blaspheme against whatever they do not understand. And yet, whatever they, like mute animals, know from nature, in these things they are corrupted.

Jude 1:16

These ones are complaining murmurers, walking according to their own desires. And their mouth is speaking arrogance, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

Revelation 3:17

For you declare, 'I am wealthy, and I have been enriched further, and I have need of nothing.' And you do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.