1 Timothy 6:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,

Cross References

2 Timothy 2:23

Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.

2 Timothy 3:4

they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God —

1 Timothy 3:6

he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil;

Jude 1:10

But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin.

2 Peter 2:12

But those people! — like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind men of this: adjure them before the Lord not to bandy arguments — no good comes out of that, it only means the undoing of your audience.

Jude 1:16

For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life — they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

2 Peter 2:18

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct —

1 Timothy 1:7

doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.

1 Timothy 1:4

and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

James 1:19

Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry —

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

Acts 15:2

As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

Revelation 3:17

You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' — not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

Philippians 2:14

In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing,

Philippians 2:3

never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

Philippians 1:15

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

Galatians 6:3

If anyone imagines he is somebody, he is deceiving himself, for he is nobody;

Galatians 5:26

let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

Galatians 5:15

(whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

2 Corinthians 11:20

You put up with a man who assumes control of your souls, with a man who spends your money, with a man who dupes you, with a man who gives himself airs, with a man who flies in your face.

1 Corinthians 11:18

First of all, in your church-meetings I am told that cliques prevail. And I partly believe it.

1 Corinthians 11:16

If anyone presumes to raise objections on this point — well, I acknowledge no other mode of worship, and neither do the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

Romans 14:1

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.

Romans 13:13

let us live decorously as in the open light of day — no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

Romans 12:16

Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

Romans 2:8

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness —

Acts 18:15

But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that."

Acts 8:9

Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person,