1 Timothy 6:4

New American Bible - revised edition

is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes. From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions,

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

One acts rich but has nothing; another acts poor but has great wealth.

Proverbs 25:14

Clouds and wind but no rain— the one who boasts of a gift not given.

Proverbs 26:12

You see those who are wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Isaiah 58:4

See, you fast only to quarrel and fight and to strike with a wicked fist! Do not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high!

Acts 15:2

Because there arose no little dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them, it was decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and presbyters about this question.

Acts 18:15

but since it is a question of arguments over doctrine and titles and your own law, see to it yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of such matters.”

Acts 8:9

A man named Simon used to practice magic in the city and astounded the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

Romans 12:16

Have the same regard for one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly; do not be wise in your own estimation.

Romans 13:13

let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy.

Romans 14:1

Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Romans 2:8

but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness.

1 Corinthians 11:16

But if anyone is inclined to be argumentative, we do not have such a custom, nor do the churches of God. An Abuse at Corinth.

1 Corinthians 11:18

First of all, I hear that when you meet as a church there are divisions among you, and to a degree I believe it;

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving in an ordinary human way?

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

Galatians 5:15

But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envious of one another.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he is deluding himself.

Philippians 1:15

Of course, some preach Christ from envy and rivalry, others from good will.

Philippians 2:14

Do everything without grumbling or questioning,

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, delighting in self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, inflated without reason by his fleshly mind,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so as to seat himself in the temple of God, claiming that he is a god—

1 Timothy 1:4

or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith.

1 Timothy 1:7

wanting to be teachers of the law, but without understanding either what they are saying or what they assert with such assurance.

1 Timothy 3:6

He should not be a recent convert, so that he may not become conceited and thus incur the devil’s punishment.

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind people of these things and charge them before God to stop disputing about words. This serves no useful purpose since it harms those who listen.

2 Timothy 2:23

Avoid foolish and ignorant debates, for you know that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 3:4

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

Titus 3:9

Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and futile.

James 1:19

Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:18

For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.

Jude 1:10

But these people revile what they do not understand and are destroyed by what they know by nature like irrational animals.

Jude 1:16

These people are complainers, disgruntled ones who live by their desires; their mouths utter bombast as they fawn over people to gain advantage. Exhortations.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.