1 Timothy 6:4

Lighthouse Bible 2006

He is proud, knowing nothing, but craving questions and controversies about words, from which come envy, strife, insults, evil surmisings,

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

There is a man who makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is a man who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

Proverbs 25:14

He who boasts about a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man wise in his own sight? there is more hope for a fool than for him.

Isaiah 58:4

Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Acts 15:2

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

Acts 18:15

But if it is a question of words and names, and of your law, you look to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.

Acts 8:9

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforehand in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, claiming that he himself was some great one:

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be concerned with high things, but associate with men of humble circumstances. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in impurity and licentiousness, not in disputing and envying.

Romans 14:1

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not for doubtful controversies.

Romans 2:8

But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone seems inclined to dispute, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

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

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

For you are yet carnal: for in that there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you allow it, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes from you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you 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 desire to glorify ourselves, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:3

For if a person thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Philippians 1:15

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

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmuring and disputing:

Philippians 2:3

Let nothing be done through strife or self glorification; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one beguile you of your reward in a pretended humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

1 Timothy 1:4

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which lead to questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

1 Timothy 1:7

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor the things they make assertions about.

1 Timothy 3:6

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he falls into the condemnation of the devil.

2 Timothy 2:14

Of these things put them in remembrance, instructing them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.

2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they produce disagreements.

2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and quarrels, and controversies about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 1:19

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they do not understand; and shall completely perish in their own corruption;

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much licentiousness, those who had entirely escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:10

But these speak evil of those things which they do not know: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration for the sake of gain.

Revelation 3:17

Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: