1 Timothy 6:4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

One man pretends to be rich but has nothing; another pretends to be poor but has great wealth.

Proverbs 25:14

The man who boasts about a gift that does not exist is like clouds and wind without rain.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Isaiah 58:4

You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.

Acts 15:2

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

Acts 18:15

But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”

Acts 8:9

A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.

Romans 12:16

Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

Romans 14:1

Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about doubtful issues.

Romans 2:8

but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

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

1 Corinthians 3:18

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?

2 Corinthians 11:20

In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone captures you, if someone dominates you, or if someone hits you in the face.

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Philippians 1:15

To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and strife, but others out of good will.

Philippians 2:14

Do everything without grumbling and arguing,

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God.

1 Timothy 1:4

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

1 Timothy 1:7

They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on.

1 Timothy 3:6

He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to fight about words; this is in no way profitable and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

2 Timothy 2:23

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

James 1:19

My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals — creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed — speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:10

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals — they destroy themselves with these things.

Jude 1:16

These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.

Revelation 3:17

Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,